Title Muslims in interwar Europe : a transcultural historical perspective / edited by Bekim Agai, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) Series Muslim minorities, 1570-7571 ; volume 17 Muslim minorities ; v. 17. Contents Introduction: Towards a trans-cultural history of Muslims in interwar Europe / Bekim Agai, Umar Ryad and Mehdi Sajid -- In search of religious modernity: conversion to Islam in interwar Berlin / Gerdien Jonker -- Salafiyya, Ahmadiyya, and European converts to Islam in the interwar period / Umar Ryad -- Conversion of European intellectuals to Islam: the case of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje alias 'Abd al-Ghaffār / Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld -- Muslim bodies in the metropole: social assistance and religious- practice in interwar Paris / Naomi Davidson -- Indonesian islam in interwar Europe: Muslim organizations in the Netherlands and beyond / Klaas Stutje -- Moros y cristianos: religious aspects of the participation of Moroccan soldiers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) / Ali Al Tuma -- Muslims of interwar Lithuania: the predicament of a torn autochthonous ethno-confessional community / Egdūnas Račius -- Transnational life in multicultural space: Azerbaijani and Tatar discourses in interwar Europe / Zaur Gasimov and Wiebke Bachmann Summary This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the multiple aspects of the global Muslim religious, political and intellectual affiliations in interwar Europe. They argue that Muslims in interwar Europe were neither simply visitors nor colonial victims, but that they constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space Analysis islam interwar europe entangled history intellectual history transcultural history european converts migrants pan-islam orientalists muslim mission anti-colonialism eastern europe muslim activists north african soldiers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (BrillOnline, viewed February 2, 2016) Subject Muslims -- Europe -- History Islam -- Europe -- History Asian history. History. Humanities. Middle Eastern history. Regional and national history. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Islamic Studies. Ethnic relations Islam Muslims SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations Europe -- History -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045717 Subject Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Agai, Bekim, editor. Ryad, Umar, editor. Sajid, Mehdi, editor. ISBN 9789004301979 9004301976

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