The Oxford Handbook of European Islam

Issa J. Boullata, Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online This book is essential reading for all those interested in Islam and Muslims in Europe... How these Muslims were received in Europe by Europeans and how they reacted to European culture and life conditions is, I think, the most important contribution of this book. Islamophobia, on the part of some Europeans, and reluctant integration, on the part of some Muslims, played into the hands of European politicians and lawmakers as well as into those of Muslim leaders in Europe. There is no doubt that Europe has changed with the presence of Muslims in it, and that Muslims have changed after they came to live in Europe. Moreover, this book is a good record of this change, and a good presentiment of things to come.

Jrgen Nielsen, Journal of Islamic Studies ...one of the most significant resources for anyone working in this field. The information and analyses in each chapter are indispensable, and the bibliographies, often running to eight or more pages of small print in each chapter, constitute an essential reference resource. This is where researchers can best start.

Jocelyne Cesari is Professor of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Peace, Religion and World Affairs at Georgetown University. Her recent publications include, Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies (Palgrave MacMilllan, 2013) and The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

PART I: ISLAM AS A POST COLONIAL, POST WWII RELIGION IN EUROPE ; PART II: THE ARRIVAL OF ISLAM AS POST 1974 MIGRATION ; PART III: THE OLD EUROPEAN LAND OF ISLAM ; PART IV: ISLAM AND EUROPEAN SECULARISM ; PART V: ISLAM AND EUROPEAN POLITICS