Yearbook of Muslims in Europe

The ever-changing conditions and place of Muslims in Europe and the ever-growing depth and breadth of interest has made individual studies quickly outdated, and so the series is being initiated to provide an annual update of information and analysis for scholars, journalists, and policy makers. Most of the volume is devoted to country surveys averaging about 10 pages each. The analysis section presents five essays exploring the impact of Islam on Europe in terms of relations between Turkey and the European Union, whether European Muslim youth are creating a cool Islam, Muslim veiling controversies in Europe, media and Muslims in Europe, and freedom of expression and religious freedom. Volume one does not contain an index; Brill will surely rectify this in a future volume. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Editor-in-ChiefJorgen 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.EditorsSamim Akgonul, Ph.D. (2001) historian and political scientist, is Associate Professor at 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 Aliba?ic is a lecturer 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).Brigitte Marechal, Ph.D. (2006) in sociology, graduated in political sciences and islamology, is Professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. She is director of Cismoc (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes de l’Islam dans le Monde Contemporain) and published extensively on European Islam.Christian Moe, Ph.D. candidate, history of religion, University of Oslo, is a freelance writer and researcher in Slovenia, focusing on Balkan Muslims, human rights, and religious reform. He is co-editor of New Directions in Islamic Thought (I. B. Tauris, 2009).Editorial AssistantNadia Jeldtoft is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought at the University of Copenhagen. She works on minority issues and religious identity of Muslim minorities in Europe and is currently focusing on everyday forms of Islam with non-organized Muslim minorities in Germany, England and Denmark. She has recently published “Other Muslim Identities - a study of non-organized Muslim minorities” [Andre Muslimske identiteter - et studie af ikke-organiserede muslimer] in Islamforskning 1:2008.