Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region

For centuries Muslim Tatars have been part of the ethnic mosaic of the Baltic region, and scholars from the region present a rarely told narrative with insights into a cultural history that deserves to be better known. They consider countries around the Baltic Sea one by one, but exclude Denmark because Tatar presence there has been too limited to provide a chapter. They also omit Russia because trying to cover the whole federation clear to the Far East would draw them too far from their focus. They cover early settlements in Lithuania and Poland; the second wave in Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia; and the third wave in Sweden and Germany. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Ingvar Svanberg is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. He has contributed to many publications on Muslims, including the readerIslam in the West, which he co-edited with David Westerlund (Routledge, 2011). David Westerlund is Professor in the Study of Religions at Sodertorn University in Stockholm. His recent publications includeReligion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries, which he co-edited with Greg Simons (Ashgate, 2015).