Islam and Muslims in Germany

Originally published as volume seven of the Muslim Minorities series, Islam and Muslims in Germany explores the diverse topic with contributors from wide-ranging fields including geography, sociology, religious studies, law, literature, and history. Al-Hamarneh (human geography, U. of Mainz, Germany) and Thielman (managing director, Kompetenzzentrum Orient-Okzident Mainz KOOM, U. of Mainz, Germnay) section the book into seven parts: framing of Muslim life worlds (Lebenswelten), Islam and social practice, communities and identities, culture, media, gender, and economies. Each section contains multiple chapters from 25 contributors, the majority of whom are based in Germany. This a paperbound reprint of the 2008 clothbound edition. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Ala Al-Hamarneh, Ph.D. in human geography (1994), is assistant professor in human geography and a researcher in the Center for Research on the Arab World at the University of Mainz. Issues of migration, poverty, globalization of services and cinematic geo-hermeneutics are in the centre of his academic research. Jorn Thielmann, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, is since 2009 Executive Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.He is particulary interested in the anthropology of Islam and in Islamic normativities in a transnational context.