The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in Minority IntegrationThe Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the widespread notion that Europe’s Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy. He documents how European governments in the 1970s and 1980s excluded Islam from domestic institutions, instead inviting foreign powers like Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Turkey to oversee the practice of Islam among immigrants in European host societies. But since the 1990s, amid rising integration problems and fears about terrorism, governments have aggressively stepped up efforts to reach out to their Muslim communities and incorporate them into the institutional, political, and cultural fabrics of European democracy. |
Contents
A Leap in the Dark Muslims and the State in TwentyfirstCentury Europe | 1 |
European Outsourcing and Embassy Islam Lislam cest moi | 30 |
A Politicized Minority The Qurân is our Constitution | 70 |
Citizens Groups and the State | 105 |
The Domestication of StateMosque Relations | 133 |
Imperfect Institutionalization Islam Councils in Europe | 163 |
The Partial Emancipation Muslim Responses to the StateIslam Consultations | 198 |
Muslim Integration and European Islam in the Next Generation | 245 |
Notes | 273 |
Interviews | 309 |
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