Muslim Political Participation in Europe

Jørgen S. Nielsen is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary European Islam, University of Birmingham, and Affiliate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He studied Arabic and Middle East studies at SOAS, London, and did his PhD in Arab history at the American University of Beirut. Since 1978 he has researched Islam in Europe at Selly Oak Colleges and the University of Birmingham. He was director of the Danish Institute in Damascus 2005-7 and then spent six years as Danish National Research Foundation professor at the Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University. He is the author of Muslims in Western Europe (Edinburgh, 1st ed. 1993, 4th edition with Jonas Otterbeck 2016) and is involved in editing several book series for Brill (Leiden) as well as the Journal of Muslims in Europe.

The book is a historical, political, emigrational and biographical document of Muslim participation and integration in European society. It is a good read for students, scholars and research fellows who want to know the political history of Muslims and their participation in European politics.'

• List of tables and figures ; 1. Introduction , Jørgen 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 Bäckelie and Göran Larsson; 5. Lithuanian Muslims’ attitudes toward participation in democratic political process: the case of converts, Egdūnas Račius; 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 Frégosi; 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. Clichés are funny as long as they happen on stage: comedy as political criticism, Riem Spielhaus; Notes on the contributors; Index.