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Muslim Political Participation in Europe

Muslim Political Participation in Europe

by Jorgen Nielsen
Muslim Political Participation in Europe
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Muslim Political Participation in Europe

Muslim Political Participation in Europe

by Jorgen Nielsen

Overview

To what extent are Muslims in Europe integrated?

Muslims are increasingly making themselves noticed in the political process of Europe. But what is happening behind the often sensational headlines? This book looks at the processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics in a range of Eastern and Western European countries: voting patterns in local and national assemblies, membership of elected councils and national parliaments, and the tensions between ethnic, political and religious identities. It also asks how political participation and wider integration issues interrelate and considers how Muslims - as ethnic groups, or through specific institutions - seek to locate themselves within European political society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780748677535
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/28/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

J rgen S. Nielsen is Professor of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. He has previously held academic positions in Beirut, Birmingham (UK), and Damascus. He is the author of Muslims in Western Europe (3rd edition, Edinburgh University Press, 2004), and editor of a number of recent books, including Islam in Denmark: The Challenge of Diversity (Lanham: Lexington, 2012), and Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Leiden: Brill, from 2009).

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
Introduction, J rgen S. Nielsen

Part One: Laying foundations: national and local elections
2. Muslim political participation in Belgium: an exceptional political representation in Europe, Fatima Zibouh
3. Muslim political participation in Germany: a structurationist approach, Maike Didero
4. Political opinions and participation among young Muslims in Sweden: a case study, Jonatan B ckelie and G ran Larsson
5. Lithuanian Muslims' attitudes toward participation in democratic political process: the case of converts, Egdunas Racius
6. Political participation of European Muslims in France and the United Kingdom, Salima Bouyarden

Part Two: Participation as integration
7. Muslim collective mobilisations in contemporary Europe: new issues and new types of involvement, Franck Fr gosi
8. How politically integrated are Danish Muslims? Evidence from the Muhammad cartoons controversy, Lasse Lindekilde
9. Limits and potentialities of the Italian and British political systems through the lens of Muslim women in politics, Alessia Belli
10. Representing 'Islam of the banlieues': class and political participation among Muslims in France, Z. Fareen Parvez

Part Three: Institutions as gateways
11. Creating the image of European Islam: the European Council for Fatwa and Research and Ireland, Adil Hussain Khan
12. The political participation of Polish Muslim Tatars, the result of or the reason for integration? From Teutonic wars to the Danish cartoons affair, Agata S. Nalborczyk
13. The Alevi quest in Europe through the redefinition of the Alevi movement: recognition and political participation, a case study of the FUAF in France, Deniz Kosulu
14. Leicester Muslims: citizenship, race and civil religion, Carolina Ivanescu

Part Four: Breaking the bounds
15. Muslims and electoral politics in Britain: the case of the Respect Party, Tim Peace
16. Clich s are funny as long as they happen on stage: comedy as political criticism, Riem Spielhaus

Notes on the contributors
Index.
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