Analyses European Muslim communities' developing involvement in their political environment and related Muslim and public debates.

Table of Contents

• List of tables and figures
• 1. Introduction - Jørgen S. Nielsen
• Part One Laying foundations: national and local elections
• 2. Muslim political participation in Belgium: an exceptional political representation in Europe - Fatima Zibouh
• 3. Muslim political participation in Germany: a structurationist approach - Maike Didero
• 4. Political opinions and participation among young Muslims in Sweden: a case study - Jonatan Bäckelie and Göran Larsson
• 5. Lithuanian Muslims’ attitudes toward participation in the democratic political process: the case of converts - Egdūnas Račius
• 6. Political participation of European Muslims in France and the United Kingdom - Salima Bouyarden
• Part Two Participation as integration
• 7. Muslim collective mobilisations in contemporary Europe: new issues and new types of involvement - Franck Frégosi
• 8. How politically integrated are Danish Muslims? Evidence from the Muhammad cartoons controversy - Lasse Lindekilde
• 9. Limits and potentialities of the Italian and British political systems through the lens of Muslim women in politics - Alessia Belli
• 10. Representing ‘Islam of the banlieues’: class and political participation among Muslims in France - Z. Fareen Parvez
• Part Three Institutions as gateways
• 11. Creating the image of European Islam: the European Council for Fatwa and Research and Ireland - Adil Hussain Khan
• 12. The political participation of Polish Muslim Tatars - the result of or the reason for integration? From Teutonic wars to the Danish cartoons affair - Agata S. Nalborczyk
• 13. The Alevi quest in Europe through the redefinition of the Alevi movement: recognition and political participation, a case study of the FUAF in France - Deniz Koşulu
• 14. Leicester Muslims: citizenship, race and civil religion - Carolina Ivanescu
• Part Four Breaking the bounds
• 15. Muslims and electoral politics in Britain: the case of the Respect Party - Timothy Peace
• 16. Clichés are funny as long as they happen on stage: comedy as political criticism - Riem Spielhaus
• Notes on the contributors