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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741158003321

Autore

Bruce Benjamin

Titolo

Governing Islam Abroad : Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in Western Europe / / by Benjamin Bruce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-78664-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Collana

The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, , 2945-6088

Disciplina

297.09436

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Europe—Politics and government

Islam

International relations

Emigration and immigration

Political science

Politics and Religion

European Politics

Foreign Policy

Diaspora Studies

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Many Faces of Official Islam in Turkey -- 3. The Makhzen and the Religious Field -- 4. The Development of State Religious Services Abroad -- 5. Creating a National Islam? Partial Governance and Public Policy Instruments -- 6. Exporting Imams -- 7. National Interests in Transnational Muslim Fields -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe. Drawing on over one hundred interviews and years of fieldwork, this book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the two home states with the largest diaspora populations in Europe: Turkey and Morocco. The research



shows how these states use religion to promote ties with their citizens and their descendants abroad while also seeking to maintain control over the forms of Islam that develop within the diaspora. The author identifies and explains the internal and foreign political interests that have motivated state actors on both sides of the Mediterranean, ultimately arguing that interstate cooperation in religious affairs has and will continue to have a structural influence on the evolution of Islam in Western Europe. Benjamin Bruce is Research Fellow with the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef), Mexico.