Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 5, Volume 5

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Jørgen Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Egdunas Racius
BRILL, Sep 19, 2013 - Social Science - 728 pages
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides an up-to-date account of the situation of Muslims in Europe. Covering 46 countries of Europe in its broader sense, the Yearbook presents a country-by-country summary of essential data with basic statistics and evaluations of their reliability, surveys of legal status and arrangements, organisations, etc. Data have been brought up to date from the previous volume.
Since 2012, the former article and review sections of the Yearbook are published as the Journal of Muslims in Europe. The Yearbook remains the annual reference work for country surveys on Muslims in Europe.

The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe is an important source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, and policy makers as well as scholars.
 

Contents

Some Thoughts about Studying Europes Contemporary Islam
1
Country Surveys
19
Albania
21
Armenia
37
Austria
47
Azerbaijan
65
Belarus
87
Belgium
99
Latvia
383
Liechtenstein
391
Lithuania
399
Luxembourg
407
Macedonia
417
Malta
429
Moldova
437
Montenegro
455

Bosnia and Herzegovina
123
Bulgaria
143
Croatia
163
Cyprus
173
Czech Republic
195
Denmark
209
Estonia
229
Finland
237
France
247
Georgia
263
Germany
281
Greece
307
Hungary
319
Iceland
327
Ireland
333
Italy
351
Kosovo
369
Netherlands
465
Norway
487
Poland
501
Portugal
517
Romania
531
Russia
547
Serbia
569
Slovakia
585
Slovenia
593
Spain
603
Sweden
619
Switzerland
633
Turkey
649
Ukraine
669
United Kingdom
681
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Editor-in-Chief
Jørgen S. Nielsen, Ph.D. (1978) in Arab history, American University of Beirut, has researched and published extensively on Islam in Europe, including Muslims in Western Europe (3rd ed., Edinburgh University Press, 2004). He is currently Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Editors
Samim Akgönül, Ph.D. (2001), historian and political scientist, is Professor at the Institute of International Relations and the Department of Turkish Studies of Strasbourg University and senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He studies the evolution of minority concepts as well as religious minorities in Eastern and Western Europe.

Ahmet Alibašić, Ph.D. (2011), is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, and director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Sarajevo. He was educated in Kuala Lumpur (Islamic studies, political sciences, and Islamic civilization). He also served as the first director of the Interreligious Institute in Sarajevo (2007-2008).

Egdūnas Račius, Ph.D. (2004) in Arabic and Islamic studies, University of Helsinki, is currently Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. He has been engaged in research on Islam in the Baltic States for the past decade.

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