The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims : the State's Role in Minority Integration.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter One: A Leap in the Dark: Muslims and the State in Twenty-first-Century Europe; Chapter Two: European Outsourcing and Embassy Islam: L'islam, c'est moi; Chapter Three: A Politicized Minority: The Qur'ân is our Constitution; Chapter Four: Citizens, Groups, and the State; Chapter Five: The Domestication of State-Mosque Relations; Chapter Six: Imperfect Institutionalization: Islam Councils in Europe.

Chapter Seven: The Partial Emancipation: Muslim Responses to the State-Islam ConsultationsChapter Eight: Muslim Integration and European Islam in the Next Generation; Notes; Interviews; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the widespread notion that Europe's Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy. He documents how European governments in the 1970s and 1980s excluded Islam from domestic institutions, instead inviting foreign powers like Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Turkey to oversee the practice of Islam among immigrants in European host societies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-354) and index.

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