2010/07/15 by Alexandre Caeiro
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Religion and Society Interactions
paper · doi:10.1017/s0020743810000437
openalex publication_date 2010/07/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27
What does it mean to “integrate” a complex and multifaceted tradition such as Islam into a transnational space as heterogeneous as that of modern Europe? And what kind of a project is precisely that of a “European Islam,” increasingly invoked today across the continent by a wide range of state and nonstate actors, including many Muslims? At a time dominated by variants of the clash of civilizations thesis, the project appears rather equivocal. What conceptions of Europe as a political space, and of Islam as a religious tradition, underlie the endeavor?