Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Toward a Transnational History of Islam and Muslims in Interwar Europe

   • Götz Nordbruch, Umar Ryad

   Pages 1-12

3. The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939

   • David Motadel

   Pages 13-43

4. Transnational Connections and the Building of an Albanian and European Islam in Interwar Albania

   • Nathalie Clayer

   Pages 45-66

5. Two Ulama Traveling to Europe in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Muhammad al-Wartatani and Muhammad al-Sa’ih

   • Richard van Leeuwen

   Pages 67-87

6. Arab Scholars at the Institut de Droit Comparé in Lyon—Rereading the History of Arab-European Intellectual Encounters in the Interwar Period

   • Götz Nordbruch

   Pages 89-106

7. A Salafi Student, Orientalist Scholarship, and Radio Berlin in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Experiences in the West

   • Umar Ryad

   Pages 107-155

8. Iranian Journals in Berlin during the Interwar Period

   • Mohammed Alsulami

   Pages 157-180

9. Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali’s Transnationalism: Pan-Islamism, Colonialism, and Radical Politics

   • Humayun Ansari

   Pages 181-209

10. Victims, Wives, and Concubines: The Spanish Civil War and Relations between Moroccan Troops and Spanish Women

    • Ali Al Tuma

    Pages 211-232

11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-249

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The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East–West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders.

• 20th century
• Albania
• Berlin
• building
• colonialism
• Europe
• experience
• German
• Germany
• history
• history of literature
• Islam
• Orient
• Spanish
• women

David Motadel, University of Cambridge, UK Nathalie Clayer, Collège de France Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Götz Nordbruch, The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany Umar Ryad, Leiden University, the Netherlands Mohammed al-Sulami, Umm al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia Humayun Ansari OBE, University of London, UK Ali al-Tuma, Leiden University Institute for History, the Netherlands

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