Muslims in the Enlarged Europe
Religion and Society
Edited by Brigitte Maréchal, Stefano Allievi, Felice Dassetto and Jørgen Nielsen
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Biographical note
Brigitte Maréchal is graduated in Political Science and Islamology (Louvain, IFEAD-Damas). She is Research assistant at the University of Louvain, preparing a thesis on the Muslim Brothers in Europe, she coordinated A guidebook on Islam and Muslims in the wide Contemporary Europe (Academia, 2002)
Stefano Allievi, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Padova. He published La sfida dell'immigrazione (EMI, 1991), Les convertis à l'islam (L'Harmattan, 1998), Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe (Brill, 2003, with J. Nielsen).
Felice Dassetto, Ph.D. in Sociology and Socio-Anthropology of Islam (Catholic University of Louvain). Among others, he wrote La construction de l'islam européen (L'Harmattan, 1996), Islamic Words. Individuals, Societies and Discourse in Contemporary European Islam (Maisonneuve-Larose, 2000).
Jørgen Nielsen, Ph.D., is Professor of Islamic studies at the University of Birmingham, Director of Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion. Among others, he has published Muslims in Western Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 1995), Towards a European Islam (MacMillan, 1999).
Stefano Allievi, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Padova. He published La sfida dell'immigrazione (EMI, 1991), Les convertis à l'islam (L'Harmattan, 1998), Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe (Brill, 2003, with J. Nielsen).
Felice Dassetto, Ph.D. in Sociology and Socio-Anthropology of Islam (Catholic University of Louvain). Among others, he wrote La construction de l'islam européen (L'Harmattan, 1996), Islamic Words. Individuals, Societies and Discourse in Contemporary European Islam (Maisonneuve-Larose, 2000).
Jørgen Nielsen, Ph.D., is Professor of Islamic studies at the University of Birmingham, Director of Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion. Among others, he has published Muslims in Western Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 1995), Towards a European Islam (MacMillan, 1999).
Readership
All those interested in European Islam and integration of Muslim communities in Europe as well as in the various responses from European societies to cultural changes and especially religious pluralism.
Reviews
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Ake Sander, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2005.
Ake Sander, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2005.
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