The Oxford Handbook of European Islam

Summary:

For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the West, what was previously an engagement across national and cultural boundaries has increasingly become an internalized encounter within Europe itself. Questions of the Hijab in schools, freedom of expression in the wake of the Danish Cartoon crisis, and the role of Shari'a have come to the forefront of contemporary European discourse.

This Handbook is the first collection to present a comprehensive approach to the multiple and changing ways Islam has been studied across European countries.

Parts one to three address the state of knowledge of Islam and Muslims within a selection of European countries, while presenting a critical view of the most up-to-date data specific to each country. These chapters analyse the immigration cycles and policies related to the presence of Muslims, tackling issues such as discrimination, post-colonial identity, adaptation, and assimilation. The thematic chapters, in parts four and five, examine secularism, radicalization, Shari'a, Hijab, and Islamophobia with the goal of synthesizing different national discussion into a more comparative theoretical framework.

The Handbook attempts to balance cutting edge assessment with the knowledge that the content itself will eventually be superseded by events. Featuring eighteen newly-commissioned essays by noted scholars in the field, this volume will provide an excellent resource for students and scholars interested in European Studies, immigration, Islamic studies, and the sociology of religion.

Table of contents:

Introduction | Jocelyne Cesari

Part I: Islam as a Postcolonial, Post Second World War Religion in Europe
1. France | Jennifer A. Selby
2. The United Kingdom | Sophie Gilliat-Ray
3. Germany | Riem Spielhaus
4. The Netherlands | Maurits S. Berger
5. Belgium | Nadia Fadil, Farid El Asri, Sarah Bracke

Part II: The Arrival of Islam as Post 1974 Migration
6. Italy | Chantal Saint-Blancat
7. Spain | Ana I. Planet Contreras
8. Greece | Venetia Evergeti, Panos Hatziprokopiou, Nicolas Prevelakis
9. Scandinavian countries | Garbi Schmidt, Jonas Otterbeck

Part III: The Old European Land of Islam
10. Bosnia and Herzegovina | Ahmet Alibašić
11. Albanians' Islam(s) | Isa Blumi, Gëzim Krasniqi
12. Russia | Stéphane A. Dudoignon
13. Bulgaria | Antonina Zhelyazkova

Part IV: Islam and European Secularism
14. The institutionalization of Islam in Europe | Silvio Ferrari, Rossella Bottoni
15. Shariah in Europe | Mathias Rohe
16. Hijab | Jennifer A. Selby

Part V: Islam and European Politics
17. Islamophobia | Ayhan Kaya
18. Radicalization | Daniela Pisoiu

Conclusion: Is there a European Islam? | Jocelyne Cesari