1st Edition

Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries

Edited By Göran Larsson Copyright 2009
160 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and includes chapters on Islam in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,... Read more

Acknowledgements  1. Islam and Muslims in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Göran Larsson  2. The Faroe Islands and Iceland Göran Larsson and Ingvar Svanberg  3. Norway Christine M. Jacobsen  4. Denmark Garbi Schmidt  5. Sweden Göran Larsson  6. Finland Tuomas Martikainen  7. Estonia Aysha Özkan  8. Latvia Emin Poljarevic & Ingvar Svanberg  9. Lithuania Egdunas Racius  List of Contributors

Biography

Goran Larsson is a Lecturer on the History of Religions at Goteborg University, Sweden. He is also affiliated to the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society, Sweden.