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Muslim Political Participation in Europe

Jorgen S. Nielsen

Abstract

After an introduction by the editor this book presents fifteen studies from across Europe, including the eastern part, many of them comparative across countries. The chapters are arranged in four parts. The first focuses particularly on local and national elections, and the second part on broader questions of political integration, especially among women and youth. Part three looks out how institutions, Muslim and local or national, can facilitate and contribute to directing the particular ways in which political integration can be channelled or hindered. Finally, the fourth part investigates ... More

Keywords: Muslims, Europe, Politics, Youth, Women, Immigrants, Minorities

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780748646944
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2013 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748646944.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Jorgen S. Nielsen, editor
University of Copenhagan

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Tables and Figures

Chapter 1 Introduction

Jørgen S. Nielsen

Part One Laying Foundations: National and Local Elections

Chapter 2 Muslim Political Participation in Belgium: An Exceptional Political Representation in Europe

Fatima Zibouh

Chapter 3 Muslim Political Participation in Germany: a Structurationist Approach

Maike Didero

Chapter 4 Political Opinions and Participation Among Young Muslims in Sweden: A Case Study1

Jonatan Bäckelie, and Göran Larsson

Chapter 5 Lithuanian Muslims’ attitudes toward participation in the democratic political process: the case of converts

Egdūnas Račius

Chapter 6 Political Participation of European Muslims in France and the United Kingdom

Salima Bouyarden

Part Two Participation as integration

Chapter 7 Muslim collective mobilisations in contemporary Europe: new issues and new types of involvement

Franck Frégosi

Chapter 8 How Politically Integrated are Danish Muslims? Evidence from the Muhammad Cartoons Controversy

Lasse Lindekilde

Chapter 9 Limits and potentialities of the Italian and British political systems through the lens of Muslim women in politics

Alessia Belli

Chapter 10 Representing ‘Islam of the Banlieues’: Class and Political Participation Among Muslims in France

Z. Fareen Parvez

Part Three Institutions as Gateways

Chapter 11 Creating the Image of European Islam: The European Council for Fatwa and Research and Ireland1

Adil Hussain Khan

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 Koşulu

Chapter 14 Leicester Muslims: Citizenship, Race and Civil Religion

Carolina Ivanescu

Part Four Breaking the Bounds

Chapter 15 Muslims and Electoral Politics in Britain: the Case of the Respect Party

Timothy Peace

Chapter 16 Clichés are funny as long as they happen on stage: comedy as political criticism

Riem Spielhaus

End Matter

Notes on the contributors

Index