Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: Muslims and modernity: culture and society in an age of contest and plurality
- PART I SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- 2 New networks and new knowledge: migrations, communications and the refiguration of the Muslim community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- 3 Population, urbanisation and the dialectics of globalisation
- 4 The origins and early development of Islamic reform
- 5 Reform and modernism in the middle twentieth century
- 6 Islamic resurgence and its aftermath
- 7 The new transnationalism: globalising Islamic movements
- 8 Muslims in the West: Europe
- 9 Muslims in the West: North America
- 10 New frontiers and conversion
- PART II RELIGION AND LAW
- PART III POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT
- PART IV CULTURES, ARTS AND LEARNING
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
8 - Muslims in the West: Europe
from PART I - SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: Muslims and modernity: culture and society in an age of contest and plurality
- PART I SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- 2 New networks and new knowledge: migrations, communications and the refiguration of the Muslim community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- 3 Population, urbanisation and the dialectics of globalisation
- 4 The origins and early development of Islamic reform
- 5 Reform and modernism in the middle twentieth century
- 6 Islamic resurgence and its aftermath
- 7 The new transnationalism: globalising Islamic movements
- 8 Muslims in the West: Europe
- 9 Muslims in the West: North America
- 10 New frontiers and conversion
- PART II RELIGION AND LAW
- PART III POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT
- PART IV CULTURES, ARTS AND LEARNING
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Overview
Major Muslim immigration to Europe began as part of the colonial ventures of the nineteenth century, but in multiple ways Islam has long been part of Europe. Images of infidels in the Holy Land galvanised support for the Crusades and the Papacy. Islam directly shaped societies in southern Spain and the Ottoman Balkans. Life in the Mediterranean world long involved collaborations among Muslims, Christians and Jews. This history has left strongly ambivalent attitudes towards neighbouring Muslim-majority lands. The debates in the early 2000s over Turkey’s future in Europe reveal the perduring emotional associations of ‘the West’ and ‘Christendom’, and remind us that many Europeans considered, and some still consider, Islam to define Europe’s southern boundaries.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Muslims moved from the periphery into the centres. French conquest of Algiers in 1830 led to extensive settlement in Algeria and to control over Morocco, Tunisia and parts of western Africa. British and Dutch efforts to regulate trade and production in South and South-East Asia grew into direct or indirect rule over the majority of the world’s Muslims. Some Muslim subjects of these empires eventually travelled to the metropolis for work or study.
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