Transnational Islam In Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists And Thinkers (the Modern Muslim World)

The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East-West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders. The study of Muslim experiences in and with Europe during the interwar period is still in its initial phase. Addressing a gap, this volume brings together the insights of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine Muslim networks and actors in interwar Europe with a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of their activities. Drawing on official and personal archives and contemporary writings that have been largely ignored in the study of Europe, the contributors place Muslim activities within global political and intellectual history. They analyze significant socio-political ideals and religious affiliations, as well as the broader social, political, religious, and cultural mobility patterns of Muslims as new social actors in the Europe of that era. Together, the chapters reveal the importance of the geopolitical and intellectual East-West networks of the interwar period Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction: Toward a Transnational History of Islam and Muslims in Interwar Europe....Pages 1-12 The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939....Pages 13-43 Transnational Connections and the Building of an Albanian and European Islam in Interwar Albania....Pages 45-66 Two Ulama Traveling to Europe in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Muhammad al-Wartatani and Muhammad al-Sa’ih....Pages 67-87 Arab Scholars at the Institut de Droit Comparé in Lyon—Rereading the History of Arab-European Intellectual Encounters in the Interwar Period....Pages 89-106 A Salafi Student, Orientalist Scholarship, and Radio Berlin in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Experiences in the West....Pages 107-155 Iranian Journals in Berlin during the Interwar Period....Pages 157-180 Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali’s Transnationalism: Pan-Islamism, Colonialism, and Radical Politics....Pages 181-209 Victims, Wives, and Concubines: The Spanish Civil War and Relations between Moroccan Troops and Spanish Women....Pages 211-232 Back Matter....Pages 233-249 Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Transnational History of Islam and Muslims in Interwar Europe -- 1 The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914-1939 -- 2 Transnational Connections and the Building of an Albanian and European Islam in Interwar Albania -- 3 Two Ulama Traveling to Europe in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Muhammad al-Wartatani and Muhammad al-Sa'ih -- 4 Arab Scholars at the Institut de Droit Compar é in Lyon-Rereading the History of Arab-European Intellectual Encounters in the Interwar Period -- 5 A Salafi Student, Orientalist Scholarship, and Radio Berlin in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Experiences in the West -- 6 Iranian Journals in Berlin during the Interwar Period -- 7 Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali's Transnationalism: Pan-Islamism, Colonialism, and Radical Politics -- 8 Victims, Wives, and Concubines: The Spanish Civil War and Relations between Moroccan Troops and Spanish Women -- List of Contributors -- Index