Muslim Europe - by Gavin Murray-Miller (Hardcover)

About the Book

Chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across the continent, this book reconceptualizes the "age of empire" through the interconnected lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to establish a place for Islam in European society.

Book Synopsis

Chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across the continent, this book reconceptualizes the "age of empire" through the interconnected lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to establish a place for Islam in European society.

Review Quotes

ldquo;Muslim Europe is an important book that helps us understand how Europeans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries understood and engaged with Islam and contextualizes the anti-Muslim rhetoric that has become more powerful across Europe over the past twenty years. It demonstrates that Europeans did not always imagine Islam and Europeanness in oppositional terms; in fact, because of their colonial empires, a surprising number of European states described themselves as ldquo;Muslim powersrdquo; during this early period."

About the Author

Gavin Murray-Miller is a Reader in History at Cardiff University.