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Unter den Muslimen im deutschsprachigen Raum behauptet sich der »Verband der Islamischen Kulturzentren« (VIKZ) als eine bedeutende islamische Strömung sufischer Provenienz. Wie die zugleich geschichts- und gegenwartsbezogene Studie der Religionshistorikerin Gerdien Jonker nachzeichnet, war es zeit ihres Bestehens eine der Stärken dieser Laiengemeinschaft, dass sie sich wechselnden Umständen anzupassen vermochte, ohne ihre religiöse Identität preiszugeben. Die Autorin bezieht Geschichte und Gegenwart kollektiver Gottsuche aufeinander, wie sie etwa in dem von den Gläubigen praktizierten »Ritus der Erinnerung« ihren Ausdruck findet. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf der brüchigen und wechselvollen Kommunikation des VIKZ mit seinen europäischen Gastgesellschaften. Die sorgfältig recherchierte Studie hat das Potenzial, gängige Vorstellungen über den VIKZ zu ergänzen und zu korrigieren und bietet tiefe Einblicke in die zugleich sehr traditionelle und sehr moderne Form der Religionsausübung seiner Mitglieder.

Religion: general --- Islamic studies --- Europe. --- Islam. --- Islamic Studies. --- Religious Studies. --- Islamische Organisation; Religiöse Gemeinschaft; Geschlechterbeziehungen; Sufismus; Interreligiöse Kommunikation; Religion; Islam; Religionswissenschaft; Islamwissenschaft; Europa; Religious Studies; Islamic Studies; Europe

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What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met.

Ahmadiyya --- Islam --- Islamic renewal --- Religious awakening --- Muslims --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Wahhābīyah --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Aḥmedīya --- Qadiani --- Qadiyani --- Islamic sects --- Doctrines. --- Missions --- Islam. --- Reform --- Renewal --- Doctrines --- Ahmadiyya - Doctrines --- Ahmadiyya - Missions - Europe --- Islam - Missions - Europe --- Islamic renewal - Europe --- Religious awakening - Islam --- Muslims - Europe

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This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and 2005. They track down the available space that is open to Muslims in EU member states claiming a visibility of their own. The volume collects male and female, secular and religious, radical and pietistic voices of sometimes very young people. They all speak about »being a Muslim in Europe« and the meaning of »real Islam«.

Islam --- Europe. --- Islam. --- Islamic Studies. --- Politics. --- Public Space. --- Muslims; Europe; Public Space; Islam; Politics; Islamic Studies --- Islam and politics --- Muslims --- Cultural assimilation --- Political activity --- Socialization --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Europe --- Public Space --- Politics --- Islamic Studies