Cover
Table of contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I
1 Imams in Western Europe
2 Rethinking Islamic law for Europe
3 The making of Islamic authority in Europe
4 Islams in Europe
5 The European imam
6 Imam training in Europe
7 Studying Islamic theology at European universities
Figure 1 Attitudes towards the proposal to start an educational programme for imams in Sweden
Figure 2 What kind of educational needs are imams asking for in Sweden?
8 The reinvented role of imams in French society
9 The imam as an organic public intellectual
Table 1 Heuristic four-level scheme for researching public intellectuals
10 i-Imams studying female Islamic authority online
Table 1 Jihadist linguistic terminology
11 Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality
Table 1 List of in-depth interview participants
Part II
12 Towards a typology of imams of the West
Table 1 Typology of ‘Imams of the West’
13 For a ‘visible’ Islam
14 From conservative Islam to the ‘Theology of acculturation’
15 Muslim chaplaincy as a model for imamship
16 Re-examining the decline narrative
17 Imam training in the legal context of Islam in Spain
18 The Italian legal system and imams
19 In and around the mosque
20 The training of imams in Italy
21 Efforts to establish an imam-training programme in Finland
Index