Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Preface 11
5. Part I
6. 1. Imams in Western Europe 19
7. 2. Rethinking Islamic law for Europe 39
8. 3. The making of Islamic authority in Europe 51
9. 4. Islams in Europe 69
10. 5. The European imam 79
11. 6. Imam training in Europe 101
12. 7. Studying Islamic theology at European universities 121
13. 8. The reinvented role of imams in French society 143
14. 9. The imam as an organic public intellectual 165
15. 10. i-Imams studying female Islamic authority online 185
16. 11. Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality 205
17. Part II
18. 12. Towards a typology of imams of the West 231
19. 13. For a ‘visible’ Islam 255
20. 14. From conservative Islam to the ‘Theology of acculturation' 277
21. 15. Muslim chaplaincy as a model for imamship 295
22. 16. Re-examining the decline narrative 315
23. 17. Imam training in the legal context of Islam in Spain 337
24. 18. The Italian legal system and imams 359
25. 19. In and around the mosque 381
26. 20. The training of imams in Italy 399
27. 21. Efforts to establish an imam-training programme in Finland 411
28. Index 431