The Idea of European Islam Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity

Introduction: From Islam in Europe to European Islam

1. Bassam Tibi: Cultural Modernity for Religious Reform and Euro-Islam
2. Tariq Ramadan: From Adaptive to Transformative Reform and European Islam
3. Tareq Oubrou: Geotheology and the Minoriticization of Islam
4. Abdennour Bidar: Self Islam, Islamic Existentialism and Overcoming Religion

Part II: European Islamic Thought and the Formation of Perpetual Modernity Paradigm

5. Ontological Revolution and Epistemological Shift in European Islamic Thought
6. Conceptualizing the Idea of European Islam: Taha Abderrahmane’s Trusteeship Critique for Overcoming Classical Dichotomous Thought
7. Consolidating the Idea of European Islam through Perpetual Modernity Paradigm
8. European Islam as a Rawlsian Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrine

Conclusion: From European Islam to Arab Islam

Biography

Mohammed Hashas is a Research Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy.

Mohammed Hashas’s book points to ways to break away from essentialized and inverted perceptions of Islam and Muslims by focusing on the original thinking of European Muslim thinkers who are providing new theological responses to address the specifics of European Muslims, therefore taking a much needed distance from Middle Eastern and/or salafi religious discourses. His work discusses the specificity of European Islamic thinking and emphasizes the importance of considering it as seriously as we consider thinkers in the Middle East or Asia.

Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown University and University of Birmingham

In this meticulous and frequently brilliant study of the ideas, practices and precedents of European Islam, Mohammed Hashas illuminates and engages intellectual landscapes at the intersection of geography, theology, philosophy and politics. This book deserves a wide readership. After the dust settles, and it always does, The Idea of European Islam will remain on bookshelves and syllabi for years to come.

Jonathan Laurence, Professor of Political Science, Boston College

In a serious effort to capture the contours and details of European Islam, Mohammed Hashas provides an engaging account of several Muslim thinkers in Europe. He provides a theory to discuss the content of Muslim moral philosophy, theology and politics in conversation with leading thinkers based in Europe and those outside the continent in a search for solutions. Provocative as well as engaging. Anyone interested in one of the most important questions regarding the future of Europe in an age of migration and technological acceleration will find this to be an important book.

Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA

...makes this work a very worthwhile contribution and a suitable reading for an advanced undergraduate or graduate level comparative political theory seminar. In my opinion, this work easily meets all reasonable standards of scholarly rigor.

Joseph J. Kaminski, University of Sarajevo

Hashas’s wide-ranging multi-lingual scholarship is clear and eloquent. He explores the Qur’anic imperative of tadabbur (deep meditation; see Qur’an 47: 24) in the great mind of Taha Abdurrahman. Hashas surveys the work of several European Islamic intellectuals: given the dual heritage of his chosen thinkers, one feels as though Muslim North Africa (the Maghreb) is part of Europe.

Shabbir Akhtar, University of Oxford, UK, The Muslim World Book Review