Islamic Studies in European Higher Education by Nielsen, J?rgen S.; Jones, Stephen;

Navigating Academic and Confessional Approaches

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Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Date of Publication 28 February 2025
Number of Volumes Print PDF

ISBN 9781399510868
Binding Paperback
No. of pages pages
Size 234x156 mm
Language English

Short description:

Examines the integration and reform of Islamic studies in universities across Germany, the UK, Turkey, Poland and Belgium

Long description:

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 2000 students, many of whom will end up teaching confessional Islam RE 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.

Notes on the Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Incorporating Islam in European Higher Education Stephen H. Jones2. Islamic Studies in University and Seminary: Contest or Constructive Mutuality?J?rgen S. Nielsen3. (Re)habilitating the Insider: Negotiations of Epistemic Legitimacy in Islamic Theology and Newer Social Justice Mobilisation Birgitte Schepelern Johansen4. What do the Terms ?Confessional? and ?Non-confessional? Mean, and are they Helpful? Some Social Scientific Musings Sophie Gilliat-Ray5. A Decade of Islamic Theological Studies at German Universities: Expectations, Outcomes and Future Perspectives Bekim Agai and Jan Felix Engelhardt6. Islamic Theology in a Muslim-minority Environment: Distinctions of Religion within a New Academic DisciplineLena Dreier7. The Taalib as a Bricoleur: Transitioning from Madrasahto University in Modern Britain Haroon Sidat8. Why would Muslims Study Theology to Obtain an Academic Qualification? Mohammad Mesbahi9. Navigating Alongside the Limits of Mutual Interdependence: Flemish Islamic Religious Education Na?ma Lafrarchi10. The Need for Teaching against Islamophobia in a Culturally Homogeneous Context: The Case of Poland Anna Piela, Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska11. Theology Faculties in Turkey: Between State, Religion and Politics Abdurrahman Hendek12. Closing Reflections: Going Beyond Secular?Religious and Confessional?Academic Dichotomies in European Islamic Studies Sariya Cheruvallil-ContractorIndex