Islam In Nordic And Baltic Countries

Author : Larsson
Publisher : Kegan Paul International
ISBN 13 : 9780710313393
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Nordic and Baltic Countries written by Larsson and published by Kegan Paul International. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of northern Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland and includes chapters on Muslims in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland and the Faroe Island, the first studies of their kind. Based on original research by academics with long experience of the Muslim communities in question, the volume presents new and important perspectives. Chapters are presented in a comparative and regional framework, and the volume is an important reference work for all researchers and scholars interested in the history development of Islam and Muslim communities at the strategic heart of Northern Europe.

Author : Göran Larsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134012926
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries written by Göran Larsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and includes chapters on Islam in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. With contributions by academics with long experience of the Muslim communities in question based on original research, this volume presents new and important perspectives within a comparative and regional framework. Islam in Nordic and Baltic Countries will be an important reference work for students of European history and Islamology, and will be valuable to all researchers and scholars interested in the development of Islam and Muslim communities at the strategic heart of Northern Europe.

Author : Harry Norris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857713795
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in the Baltic written by Harry Norris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAS - please do not use this blurb in its raw form ????? Arriving in Europe in the 14th Century, the Qipch?q Tatars are the longest surviving Muslim people in Europe. They form the historical core of the Muslim community in the Baltic States, Belarus and Poland where the Muslim communities in these countries are small compared with those in other parts of the European Union and in Russia. Here Harry Norris investigates the earliest contacts between the Baltic peoples and the World of Islam in the Middle East. He surveys their history, their Islamic beliefs, their culture, their literature and their life in New Europe today. He draws contrasts and similarities between other Muslim communities in Europe, including the diverse Muslim groups in the Nordic countries that border the Baltic Sea; Finland, Sweden and Denmark. This book is of vital interest to those studying the rich cultural heritage of minority groups of European Muslims and their position in Europe today. It examines the trade routes of the Vikings and the early Slavs and Balts who had commercial relations with Arab merchants and where the currency of the Caliphate is evidence for the trade in amber, furs and Middle Eastern silks and other luxury goods. The Tatars and the Jewish Qipch?qs arrived in these countries during the 14th century. They were brought here by the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke Vytautas (Witold)(1396-1430). During the Jagellon dynasty and centuries later the settlement of these Muslim Tatars was to continue. They became farmers and soldiers and they rose to a high status in the royal estates of Poland. Despite this assimilation, they resolutely retained their Muslim identity. For centuries these Tatar communities, in size, were second only to the large Jewish communities in this part of Europe. But from the 19th century, amidst wars, partition and genocide their numbers declined. During the age of the Soviet Union other Muslim communities have come to settle in these lands and they now threaten to outnumber the Tatars who have lived there for centuries. This book describes the Tatars and these other Muslims. It surveys their history, their Islamic beliefs, their culture, their literature and their life in New Europe today. There are, of course, other Muslim communities, larger in number and more diverse, in Nordic countries that border the Baltic Sea; Finland, Sweden and Denmark. These are also discussed in the contents of this book revealing contrasts and similarities and past contacts between the Tatars and the Muslims of Scandinavia. This is the first book in English on this subject where sources of information elsewhere are in Polish. Russian, Byelorussian, and Lithuanian. Its author has travelled extensively in the region supported by grants and exchange agreements of the British Academy. This book contains a Glossary and an extensive Bibliography. Its content will be of interest to those whose studies are in the fields of Eastern European culture and history, Religious Studies, Islam in Europe, and the kindred Muslim communities that are to be found in Russia and in Central Asia, today.

Author : Göran Larsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134012918
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries written by Göran Larsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and includes chapters on Islam in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. With contributions by academics with long experience of the Muslim communities in question based on original research, this volume presents new and important perspectives within a comparative and regional framework. Islam in Nordic and Baltic Countries will be an important reference work for students of European history and Islamology, and will be valuable to all researchers and scholars interested in the development of Islam and Muslim communities at the strategic heart of Northern Europe.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292462
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Nordic New Religions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tøllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004308806
Total Pages : 195 pages
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Download or read book Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund, the contributors introduce the history and contemporary situation of these little known groups of people that for centuries have lived there.

Author : Jocelyne Cesari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199607974
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of European Islam written by Jocelyne Cesari and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the West, what was previously an engagement across national and cultural boundaries has increasingly become an internalized encounter within Europe itself. Questions of the Hijab in schools, freedom of expression in the wake of the Danish Cartoon crisis, and the role of Shari'a have come to the forefront of contemporary European discourse. The Oxford Handbook of European Islam is the first collection to present a comprehensive approach to the multiple and changing ways Islam has been studied across European countries. Parts one to three address the state of knowledge of Islam and Muslims within a selection of European countries, while presenting a critical view of the most up-to-date data specific to each country. These chapters analyze the immigration cycles and policies related to the presence of Muslims, tackling issues such as discrimination, post-colonial identity, adaptation, and assimilation. The thematic chapters, in parts four and five, examine secularism, radicalization, Shari'a, Hijab, and Islamophobia with the goal of synthesizing different national discussion into a more comparative theoretical framework. The Handbook attempts to balance cutting edge assessment with the knowledge that the content itself will eventually be superseded by events. Featuring eighteen newly-commissioned essays by noted scholars in the field, this volume will provide an excellent resource for students and scholars interested in European Studies, immigration, Islamic studies, and the sociology of religion.

Author : Jørgen Nielsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004205160
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of Muslims in Europe written by Jørgen Nielsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides up-to-date factual information, statistics and analysis of the situation of Muslims in 46 European countries.

Author : Jørgen S. Nielsen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739150928
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Denmark written by Jørgen S. Nielsen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little has been published in English about Islam in Denmark although interest grew after the cartoons crisis of 2005-6. Danish research on the subject is extensive, and this volume aims to present some of the most recent to an international audience. While many of the circumstances which apply across western Europe -- the history of immigration and refugees, settlement, the growth of Muslim organizations and international links, challenges of social and cultural encounter, and more recently Islam as a security issue -- also apply in Denmark, there are also differences. A small, compact country with no recent imperial history, Denmark's unified institutional, religious and social culture can make it difficult for newcomers to integrate. The fourteen chapters in this book cover the topic in three parts. The first part deals with the history and statistics of immigration and settlement, and the religious institutional responses, Christian and Muslim. Part two looks at specific issues and the interaction with the developing national debate about identity and minority. Finally part three presents the experience of four active participants in the processes of integration: youth work and hospital chaplaincy, interreligious dialogue, and the views of an imam.

Author : Haci Akman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782383077
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia written by Haci Akman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the “making of the Scandinavian” and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.