Islamic studies in European higher education : navigating academic and confessional approaches / edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen and Stephen H. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nielsen, Jørgen S., editor.

Jones, Stephen H., 1981- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Across Europe there are numerous examples of recent linkages between universities and Islamic seminaries. In Germany the federal 'top-down' experiment, now over ten years old, of establishing departments of Islamic theology in five universities has now recruited over two thousand students, many of whom will end up teaching confessional Islam religious education in schools. In the UK, local partnerships have been developed at under- and postgraduate level between e.g. Warwick, Birmingham and Middlesex universities and Islamic seminaries representing a range of Islamic traditions. Similar experiences are being developed on a smaller scale in other countries. These developments, which have taken place against a backdrop of state pressure to 'integrate' Islam and address 'radicalisation', challenge university traditions of 'scientific' approaches to the study of Islam as well as the confessional expectations of faith-based Islamic theological training. By looking more closely at the developing experience in Germany and Britain and selected other countries this volume explores how the two approaches are finding ways of creative cooperation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on the Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: Incorporating Islam in European Higher Education

Chapter 2 Islamic Studies in University and Seminary: Contest or Constructive Mutuality?

Chapter 3 (Re)habilitating the Insider: Negotiations of Epistemic Legitimacy in Islamic Theology and Newer Social Justice Mobilisation

Chapter 4 What Do the Terms 'Confessional' and 'Non-confessional' Mean, and are they Helpful? Some Social Scientific Musings

Chapter 5 A Decade of Islamic Theological Studies at German Universities: Expectations, Outcomes and Future Perspectives

Chapter 6 Islamic Theology in a Muslim-minority Environment: Distinctions of Religion within a New Academic Discipline

Chapter 7 The Taalib as a Bricoleur: Transitioning from Madrasah to University in Modern Britain

Chapter 8 Why would Muslims Study Theology to Obtain an Academic Qualification?

Chapter 9 Navigating alongside the Limits of Mutual Interdependence: Flemish Islamic Religious Education

Chapter 10 The Need for Teaching against Islamophobia in a Culturally Homogeneous Context: The Case of Poland

Chapter 11 Theology Faculties in Turkey: Between State, Religion and Politics

Chapter 12 Closing Reflections: Going Beyond Secular-Religious and Confessional-Academic Dichotomies in European Islamic Studies

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

ISBN:

1-3995-1087-8

OCLC:

1376932652