Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe: Essays in Honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen: 27 (Muslim Minorities, 27) - Hardcover

Niels Valdemar Vinding; Egdunas Racius; Jörn Thielmann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004362495 ISBN 13: 9789004362499

Publisher: BRILL, 2018

Synopsis

In Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe, the fourteen collected articles present conceptualisations, productions and explorations of the multitudes of Muslims in Europe, echoing and honouring Jørgen S. Nielsens work on the challenges for Muslim communities in Europe.

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About the Author

Niels Valdemar Vinding, PhD (2013), University of Copenhagen, is Assistant Professor researching on Islam in Europe and European Muslim institutions. Currently, his focus is on Imams of the West and the authority and leadership challenges amongst Muslims. Egdnas Raius PhD (2004) is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). His research interests encompass Eastern European Muslim communities as well as Muslim revivalist movements. Raius is a co-editor (together with Antonina Zhelyazkova) of Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires Legacy, Challenges and Change (Brill, 2018) and the author of Muslims in Eastern Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Jörn Thielmann, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, is Executive Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe EZIRE, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published with Ala Al-Hamarneh Islam and Muslims in Germany (Brill 2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004362495
• ISBN 13: 9789004362499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250