Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe: Essays in Honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen

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Contents

Publisher’s Preface

Editors’ Introduction

Note from Aminah B. McCloud

List of Contributors

Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen

Part 1: Conceptualising Islam and Muslims

1 Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism

2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers

3 Does European Islam Think?

4 Churchification of Islam in Europe

5 “Perpetual First Generation”: Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France

Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe

6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on “Parallel Justice”

7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application

8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark

9 ”ALLAH IS IGNORANCE”: An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam

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

11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation

12 Marginalised Islam: Christianity’s Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism

13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990–2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery

14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience

Index