{"product_id":"exploring-the-multitude-of-muslims-in-europe-essays-in-honour-of-jorgen-s-nielsen-9789004362499","title":"Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe a number of friends and colleagues of Jørgen S. Nielsen have joined together to celebrate his life and work by reflecting his more than forty years of scholarly contributions to the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe. The fourteen articles move through conceptualisations, productions and explorations of the multitudes of Muslims in Europe, and the authors draw on Jørgen S. Nielsen’s own work on the history and challenges of the Muslim community in Europe, critical thinking, ethnicities and theologies of Muslims in Europe, Muslim minorities, Muslim-Christian relations, and on Islamic legal challenges in Europe.    Contributors are: Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Naveed Baig, Safet Bektovic, Mohammed Hashas, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Raun Iversen, Göran Larsson, Werner Menski, Egdūnas Račius, Lissi Rasmussen, Mathias Rohe, Emil B. H. Saggau, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Thijl Sunier, and Niels Valdemar Vinding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This collection of articles is a fitting tribute to a scholar who has set the standard and ‘defined the field’ of research on Muslim communities in Europe. For those who have studied under, worked with, or benefited from, Jørgen S. Nielsen’s personal commitment to and academic pursuits of accurate descriptions and understandings of the various Muslim communities in Europe, this volume will not disappoint. It demonstrates how indebted many of us are to the work of Jørgen S. Nielsen.”   David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary, The Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations    “Jørgen S. Nielsen is rightfully acknowledged as a pioneer of the Muslims in Europe research, continuously authoring prolific texts. Whilst celebrating Nielsen’s research legacy, this collection of articles from some of the leading scholars in the field also contributes with vital and intriguing perspectives on Muslims in Europe.”   Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, Lund University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher’s Preface   Editors’ Introduction   List of Contributors   Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen    Part 1: Conceptualizing Islam and Muslims   1 Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism  Thijl Sunier   2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers  Werner Menski   3 Does European Islam Think?  Mohammed Hashas   4 Churchification of Islam in Europe  Niels Valdemar Vinding   5 “Perpetual First Generation”: Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France  Samim Akgönül    Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe   6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on \"Parallel Justice\"  Mathias Rohe   7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application  Egdūnas Račius   8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark  Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen   9 ”Allah is Ignorance”: An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam  Thomas Hoffmann      Part 3: Multitudes of Muslims in Europe   10 Human First – To be Witnesses to Each Other’s Life: Twenty-one Years of Struggle for Equal Human Dignity  Naveed Baig, Lissi Rasmussen and Hans Raun Iversen   11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation  Göran Larsson   12 Marginalised Islam: Christianity’s Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism  Emil B.H. Saggau   13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990–2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery  Ahmet Alibašić   14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience  Safet Bektovic    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535922168151,"sku":"9789004362499","price":131.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exploring-the-multitude-of-muslims-in-europe-essays-in-honour-of-jorgen-s-nielsen-9789004362499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}