Muslims in Ireland

Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester. He is the author of Islam and the Baha’i Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) and editor of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Leiden: Brill). Tuula Sakaranaho is Professor of Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. She has published extensively on methodological issues in the Study of Religions and on Muslims in contemporary society and is the author of Religious Freedom, Multiculturalism, Islam: Cross-reading Finland and Ireland (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Adil Hussain Khan is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Loyola University, New Orleans. His study of the history the Ahmadi Muslim community is forthcoming as From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Mulim Minority Movement in South Asia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015). Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham. She researches the dynamics and trajectories of gender in Islam within the context of contemporary diasporic and transnational Muslim women’s spaces. Currently, she is working on a project which explores women’s narratives of transnational marriage practices performed by Iraqi and Syrian women who have settled in Europe or other countries in the Middle East since the 1980s. The project focuses on the historical developments and contemporary understandings and approaches of marriage practices among displaced Iraqi and Syrian Muslim women and foregrounds questions of identity, home and belonging of women constituted through local, national and transnational scales of migration experiences. Vivian Ibrahim is Croft Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of The Copts of Egypt: The Challenges of Modernisation and Identity, 2nd ed. (London: IB Tauris, 2013) and co-editor of Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma (with Margit Wunsch, London and New York: Routlegde, 2012).

A very helpful book to start to flesh out the reality of the Muslim communities in Ireland... For those of us who are part of a religious minority, looking at how Ireland engages with a new religious minority helps us to understand better our own context.'- Stephen Skuce, Irish Methodist Newsletter

• List of illustrationsIntroductionOliver ScharbrodtPart I. History of Muslim Presence and Immigration to Ireland1. Sailors, Merchants, Migrants: From the Sack of Baltimore to World War IIVivian Ibrahim2. Muslim Immigration after World War IIOliver ScharbrodtPart II. Mosques, Organisations and Leadership3. Early Mosques and Muslim OrganisationsAdil Hussain Khan4. Political Islam in Ireland and the Role of Muslim Brotherhood NetworksAdil Hussain Khan5. Mosque Communities and Muslim Organisations in Dublin and Other CitiesAdil Hussain Khan, Oliver Scharbrodt and Tuula SakaranahoPart III. The Governance of Islam: Freedom of Religion and Islamic Education6. Religious Freedom and Muslims in IrelandTuula Sakaranaho7. Education and Muslim National Schools in IrelandTuula SakaranahoPart IV. Diaspora and Identity8. Muslim Women in IrelandYafa ShanneikConclusion: Being Irish, Being MuslimOliver ScharbrodtBibliographyIndex.