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Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe

Muslim Activists and Thinkers

Edited by Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad

Print Pub Date:
June 2014
Online Date:
July 2014
History Collection 2014, Series: The Modern Muslim World

The study of Muslim experiences in and with Europe during the interwar period is still in its initial phase. Addressing a gap, this volume brings together the insights of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine Muslim networks and actors in interwar Europe with a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of their activities. Drawing on official and personal archives and contemporary writings that have been largely ignored in the study of Europe, the contributors place Muslim activities within global political and intellectual history. They analyze significant socio-political ideals and religious affiliations, as well as the broader social, political, religious, and cultural mobility patterns of Muslims as new social actors in the Europe of that era. Together, the chapters reveal the importance of the geopolitical and intellectual East–West networks of the interwar period.

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Edited by Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad . (June 2014). Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe . [Online] Available at: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387042.0004. (Accessed: 20 November 2016).
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Edited by Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad . (June 2014). Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe . Retrieved from http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387042.0004
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Edited by Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad . Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe . (June 2014) Palgrave Macmillan. 20 November 2016.
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Edited by Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad . Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe [internet]. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; June 2014. [cited 2016 November 20]. Available from: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387042.0004
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David Motadel . (June 2014). ' The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939 ' in Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe pp.13–44. [Online] Available at: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387042.0004. (Accessed: 20 November 2016).
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David Motadel . (June 2014). The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939 . In Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe . (pp.13–44). Retrieved from http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387042.0004
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David Motadel . " The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939 ". Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe . (June 2014); 13–44. Palgrave Macmillan. 20 November 2016.
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David Motadel . Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe [internet]. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; June 2014. The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939 [cited 2016 November 20]. Available from: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387042.0004
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David Motadel , The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939 , Palgrave Macmillan June 2014

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Götz Nordbruch is a researcher at the The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Brunswick, Germany. His research focuses on European-Middle Eastern intellectual encounters in the early twentieth century.

Umar Ryad is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research interests include the modern history of Muslim-Christian relations, developments of Muslim reformist thought, and transnational Muslim movements in interwar Europe.

The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939

David Motadel

Muslim presence in western Europe is not a recent phenomenon resulting from the postcolonial and worker migrations of the 1950s and 1960s. In most western European metropolises, Muslim life flourished and was institutionalized for the first time during the interwar period. In France, the Grande Mosquée de Paris was inaugurated in July 1926, immediately fuelling debates in London about launching a similar project in the British capital. In 1928, the first mosque opened in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Muslims across western Europe began to organize themselves, setting up institutions varying from mosques and schools to cemeteries and publications.Although there is a vast and rapidly growing body of literature on Muslims in contemporary Europe, this research usually lacks a historical perspective, generally containing little information about the history of Islam in western European societies. This is surprising given the profound research in the field over the last decade. The major historiographical problem is, however, that most of the research done so far is scattered, limited to local and regional studies, and has so far not been connected. Addressing this problem, this article is an attempt to provide the first comprehensive, though concise, account of the history of Muslim life in western Europe before World War II.Most scholars perceive Muslim presence in western Europe as a result of the labor and postcolonial mass migrations of the postwar period. It is certainly true that Islam became more visible in the public sphere in western Europe as a result of Muslim mass immigration to major European industrial countries in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Book DOI:
10.1057/9781137387042
Chapter DOI:
10.1057/9781137387042.0004
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