Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective

Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the multiple aspects of the global Muslim religious, political and intellectual affiliations in interwar Europe. They argue that Muslims in interwar Europe were neither simply visitors nor colonial victims, but that they constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space. Contributors are Ali Al Tuma, Egdūnas Račius, Gerdien Jonker, Klaas Stutje, Naomi Davidson, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, Umar Ryad, Zaur Gasimov and Wiebke Bachmann. Bekim Agai, Prof. Dr., Frankfurt University, is Professor for Culture and Society of Islam in Past and Present and Executive Director of the Institute for Studies on Culture and Religion of Islam. Umar Ryad, Ph.D. (2008), Leiden University, is associate professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Utrecht. He is currently leading an ERC Starting Grant research project dealing with the history of Muslims in interwar Europe (2014-2019). Mehdi Sajid, PhD (2015), completed his doctoral studies at the University of Bonn in 2014. He is currently postdoctoral researcher in the ERC research project of Umar Ryad at the University of Utrecht, where he investigates Muslim transnational activities in and outside interwar Europe.