Islam

Who are Europe's Muslim leaders? How do they view Islamic integration into European society and polities? Based on 300 interviews with Muslim leaders, this innovative book tackles big questions to reveal what Muslim leaders in Europe really want and…

In this essay I argue that an important function of the Muslim waqf in the Near and Middle Eastern social system between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was to support and reinforce social units or groups based on kinship or quasi-kinship…

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin…

This article examines Geertz's well-known definition of religion, with its emphasis on meanings, and argues that it omits the crucial dimension of power, that it ignores the varying social conditions for the production of knowledge, and that its…

This book presents a broad account of the present knowledge of the history and outlines the system of Islamic law. Showing that Islamic law is the key to understanding the essence of one of the great world religions, this book explores how it still…

Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent…

Abstract This article analyses how nation states respond to religious diversity produced by migration. Drawing on research results from a comparative macro-sociological study on the incorporation of Muslims in the United Kingdom, France, and…

Els joves musulmans nascuts a la GB són més partidaris de la xara, el vel i les escoles religioses que els seus pares This report explores the attitudes of Muslims in Britain today and the reasons why there has been a significant rise in Islamic…

Europe has become a novel experiment in multiple, tiered and mediated multiculturalisms. It is now a supranational community of cultures, sub-cultures and trans-cultures inserted differentially into radically different political cultural traditions.…

To understand the root causes of the events of 9/11 many accounts have turned to Samuel P. Huntington's provocative and controversial thesis of a "clash of civilizations", arousing strong debate. Evidence from the 1995-2001 waves of the World Values…

Two paradigms of religion and state existed: one an integral state and society under religious leadership; the other of differentiated religion and state.

This report is a contribution to these attempts to keep track of, and reflect upon, ongoing research on Islam in Western Europe. A third way of restricting the scope of this report was to focus primarily on studies on the accommodation of Islam in…

Hartmut Bobzins Einführung bringt den Koran, die heilige Schrift der Muslime, auch für Nicht-Muslime zum Sprechen. Der Autor erläutert die Entwicklung, den Aufbau sowie die sprachliche und literarische Form des Korans und behandelt seine…

In the European discourse of post 9/11 reality, concepts such as "Multiculturalism", "Integration" and "European Islam" are becoming more and more topical. The empirically-based contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current…

Es gibt verschiedene Arten Muslim zu sein. Aufgabe der Politik in Deutschland ist es, die entsprechenden Bedingungen zu schaffen. Die Eröffnung der Deutschen Islam Konferenz ist dabei eine wichtige symbolische Geste gegenüber den Muslimen in…

The historical Islamic state developed interesting methods of quasi-consociational and semi-corporatist aggregation of communities. From quite early on, Sunnism became the religion of the ruling elite and of the state as well as part of the state's…

Investigates institutions of learning in Baghdad in general, 11001200. Looks especially into the Nizajima, the Saljuqid minister Nizam al-Mulk's personal (though a waqf) madrassas, which he used to gain influence. It was by far not as important as…

Institutions of education in Islam, though the rise of Madrassas was a bit late.

Schriftenreihe des Zentralinstituts für Regionalforschung, Band 1 Inhaltsverzeichnis: Mathias Hildebrandt, Petra Bendel: Integration von Muslimen (7- 52); Christoph Schumann: Integration aus Sicht von Muslimen in Deutschland (53-75); Michael Feiler:…

Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings…