Islam in Interwar Europe (Columbia/Hurst) - Hardcover

Clayer, Nathalie; Germain, Eric

9780231701006: Islam in Interwar Europe (Columbia/Hurst)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231701004 ISBN 13: 9780231701006

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2008

The Muslim population of interwar Europe interacted intensely with members of other communities. The Ahmadi-Lahori missions of Berlin and Woking, for example, engaged in an intense correspondence and exchange of ideas with Albanian religious leaders.

Essays in this volume discuss the emergence of a distinctly "European" Islam (a genesis that took place much earlier than many scholars realize) and the fraught interplay between Islam and politics, especially the development of Muslim "agendas" by certain governments. Essays also address the richness and significance of debates within Europe's Muslim community, the attempts by Nazis to foment "jihad," and the operational strategies of transnational networks in the 1920s and 1930s.

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About the Author:

Nathalie Clayer is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.

Eric Germain is a researcher at the Institut d'Etudes de l'Islam et des Soci�t�s du Monde Musulman (IISMM).

Review:

Islam in Interwar Europe is an excellent collection that shows how important this period was for Islam in Europe. All the entries are well researched and of a high standard of scholarship, covering many fascinating aspects of Islam in Europe during this period, from English upper-class converts and Yemeni sailors in Britain to the Tatar communities in Poland and Germany.

(Hugh Poulton, coeditor of Muslim Identity and the Balkan State)

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