Muslims in Eastern Europe
The history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim communities in the face of often restrictive state policies and hostile social environments, especially during the Communist...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim communities in the face of often restrictive state policies and hostile social environments, especially during the Communist period. next, their subsequent revival in the aftermath of the Cold War. And last, transformation, looking at the profound changes currently taking place in the demographic composition of the communities and in the forms of Islam practiced by them. The reader is shows a picture of the general trends common the Muslim communities of Eastern Europe, and the special characteristics of clusters of states, such as the Baltics, the Balkans, the Višegrad states and the European states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Autochthonous Islam of Eastern Europe: Statistics ; Practices ; Institutions and authorities P populations, practices, institutions -- Historical overview: Mongol-Tatar invasion of Eastern Europe and its consequences ; Russian possessions in Eastern Europe and its Muslim population ; Ottoman possessions in south-eastern Europe -- North-eastern Europe: The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and its legacy ; Russia ; Ukraine ; The Baltic States ; Belarus ; Moldova -- Successor states of Yugoslavia: The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its legacy ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Montenegro and Serbia ; Kosovo ; Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ; Slovenia and Croatia -- South-eastern Europe: Albania ; Bulgaria ; Romania -- Central Europe: Poland ; Hungary ; The Czech Republic and Slovakia -- Islam in Eastern Europe, Eastern European Islam: new faces, new challenges: Foreign actors ; Assimilation, emigration (depopulation) and immigration ; Converts ; Radicalisation -- Considering the other side |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-181 |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 184 Seiten Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781474415781 978-1-4744-1578-1 9781474415798 978-1-4744-1579-8 |