Product Description: A useful introduction to the social, political, cultural and religious position of Muslims living in contemporary Europe. It describes the history of early European Muslims and outlines the causes and courses of twentieth-century Muslim immigration...read more

Product Description: During the first six-seven centuries of the Islamic era there was a very lively exchange between Christian and Islamic thinking. It was a period when Christian theologians of various denominations had to find ways of expressing their traditional ideas in Arabic...read more

Proceedings of a conference discuss the implications of contact between the Islamic world and Eastern Christianity in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Globalization and migration have served to make European societies multicultural to an unprecedented extent, but they have also increasingly brought multicultural life into the courtrooms and administrative institutions. However, there remains a lack of in-depth research investigating particular issues of Muslim family law and how these interact with society on an unofficial level, as well as in relation to the official legal processes...read more

Product Description: This book explores how equality in the right to divorce for Muslim men and women is interpreted within different judicial and theoretical frameworks. It also analyzes the differences between legislation and judicial processes, with the legislation varying between several Muslim countries...read more

To what extent are Muslims in Europe integrated?Muslims are increasingly making themselves noticed in the political process of Europe. But what is happening behind the often sensational headlines? This book looks at the processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics in a range of Eastern and Western European countries: voting patterns in local and national assemblies, membership of elected councils and national parliaments, and the tensions between ethnic, political and religious identities. It also asks how political participation and wider integration issues interrelate and considers how Muslims - as ethnic groups, or through specific institutions - seek to locate themselves within European political society.

Product Description: This edited collection gathers together the principal findings of the three-year RELIGARE project, which dealt with the question of religious and philosophical diversity in European law. Specifically, it covers four spheres of public policy and legislation where the pressure to accommodate religious diversity has been most strongly felt in Europe: employment, family life, use of public space and state support mechanisms...read more