Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-xvi

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2. Multidisciplinary Research on Islamic Organizations: Heterogeneous Organizational Forms, Strategies, and Practices

   1. Multidisciplinary Research on Islamic Organizations: Heterogeneous Organizational Forms, Strategies, and Practices

      • Kerstin Rosenow-Williams, Matthias Kortmann

      Pages 1-9

3. Different Forms of Organizations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Islamic Organizations in Poland: From Monopoly to Pluralism

      • Agata S. Nalborczyk, Monika Ryszewska

      Pages 13-36

   3. Civil Liberties or Civil Rights? Muslim American Advocacy Organizations

      • Erik Love

      Pages 37-53

   4. Divided or Conquered: The Challenges of Organizational Life for Muslims in the UK and Spain

      • Justin Gest

      Pages 54-75

4. Different Response Strategies to Organizational Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. The Impact of Public Debates on Muslim Representatives in Western Europe: The Agenda Setting Function of Mass Media

      • Maarten Koomen, Anja van Heelsum

      Pages 79-94

   3. Negotiating the Visibility of Islam in Switzerland: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Conflicts Involved with Building Projects for Mosques

      • Sarah Beyeler

      Pages 95-110

   4. Islamic Organizations in the Baltic States: Commonalities and Differences

      • Egdunas Račius

      Pages 111-128

   5. Not Quite In, Not Quite Out: Islamic Organizations in France and Germany and Their Ties to Their States of Origin

      • Benjamin Bruce

      Pages 129-149

   6. Neither Omnipotent nor a Paper Tiger: The Federation of the Alevi Communities in Germany and the Dynamics of Its Multidimensional Area of Activity

      • Ludger Pries, Tülay Tuncer-Zengingül

      Pages 150-166

5. Different Practices within the Organizations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Imams in Flanders, Belgium: Toward the First Flemish Imams

      • Patrick Loobuyck, Petra Meier

      Pages 169-185

   3. Religious Practices of DITIB Mosque Community Members: Perspectives from Germany

      • Theresa Beilschmidt

      Pages 186-202

   4. Identities, Islamophobia, and the State: Diverse Perspectives and Experiences of Muslim Civic Actors from Islamic Organizations in the UK

      • Abida Malik

      Pages 203-223

   5. The Gülen Movement in Western Europe and the USA

      • Ahmet Yükleyen, Ferhan Tunagür

      Pages 224-241

   6. Conclusion: Similarities and Differences of Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA

      • Matthias Kortmann, Kerstin Rosenow-Williams

      Pages 242-252

6. Back Matter

   Pages 253-258

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This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations.

• civil rights
• conflict
• dynamics
• environment
• Germany
• Integration
• Islam
• mass media
• media
• Muslims
• organization
• organizations
• pluralism
• research
• state

• Department of Political Science, University of Munich, Germany

  Matthias Kortmann

• Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  Kerstin Rosenow-Williams

Theresa Beilschmidt, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Benjamin Bruce, Sciences Po Paris, France Patrick Loobuyck, University of Antwerp, Belgium Erik Love, Dickinson College, US Abida Malik, University of Nottingham, UK Petra Meier, University of Antwerp, Belgium Habil. Agata S. Nalborczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland Ludger Pries, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Egd?nas Ra?ius, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Monika Ryszewska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Ferhan Tunagür Rutgers University, US Tülay Tuncer-Zengingül, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Ahmet Yükleyen, University of Mississippi, US

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