Governing Islam Abroad Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in Western Europe /

• Main Author: Bruce, Benjamin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
• Subjects: Religion and politics.; Europe-Politics and government.; Islam.; International relations.; Emigration and immigration.; Citizenship.; Politics and Religion.; European Politics.; Foreign Policy.; Diaspora.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe. Drawing on over one hundred interviews and years of fieldwork, this book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Many Faces of Official Islam in Turkey
• 3. The Makhzen and the Religious Field
• 4. The Development of State Religious Services Abroad
• 5. Creating a National Islam? Partial Governance and Public Policy Instruments
• 6. Exporting Imams
• 7. National Interests in Transnational Muslim Fields
• 8. Conclusion.