Oliver Scharbrodt, Tuula Sakaranaho, Adil Hussain Khan

Muslims in Ireland

Past and Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Features a study of a little known Muslim presence in Europe. This book is suitable for anyone who wants to understand the diversity of Muslim presences across Europe. It provides insights into the dynamics of interaction between Muslims and state and society in one of the least secular societies in Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780748696888
• ISBN-10: 0748696881
• Artikelnr.: 42772709

Autorenporträt

Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester. He is the author of Islam and the Baha'i Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad 'Abduh and 'Abdul-Baha 'Abbas (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) and editor of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Leiden: Brill). Tuula Sakaranaho is Professor of Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. She has published extensively on methodological issues in the Study of Religions and on Muslims in contemporary society and is the author of Religious Freedom, Multiculturalism, Islam: Cross-reading Finland and Ireland (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Adil Hussain Khan is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Loyola University, New Orleans. His study of the history the Ahmadi Muslim community is forthcoming as From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Mulim Minority Movement in South Asia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015). Yafa Shanneik is Research Fellow at the Study of Religions Department, University College Cork. She has published on Muslim women in Ireland, converts and migrants, in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Religion and Gender, Religion, Journal of Muslims in Europe and in Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere (ed. by Niamh Reilly et al., London and New York: Routledge, 2013). Vivian Ibrahim is Croft Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of The Copts of Egypt: The Challenges of Modernisation and Identity, 2nd ed. (London: IB Tauris, 2013) and co-editor of Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma (with Margit Wunsch, London and New York: Routlegde, 2012).