The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East-West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders.

Autorentext
David Motadel, University of Cambridge, UK Nathalie Clayer, Collège de France Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Götz Nordbruch, The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany Umar Ryad, Leiden University, the Netherlands Mohammed al-Sulami, Umm al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia Humayun Ansari OBE, University of London, UK Ali al-Tuma, Leiden University Institute for History, the Netherlands

Inhalt
Introduction: Towards a Transnational History of Islam and Muslims in Interwar Europe; Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad 1. The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914-1939; David Motadel 2. Transnational Connections and the Building of an Albanian and European Islam in Interwar Albania; Nathalie Clayer 3. Two 'Ulama Travelling to Europe in the Beginning of the 20th Century: Muhammad al-Wartatani and Muhammad al-Sa'ih; Richard van Leeuwen 4. Arab Scholars at the Institut de droit comparé in Lyon: Re-reading the History of Arab-European Intellectual Encounters in the Interwar period; Götz Nordbruch 5. A Salafi Student, Orientalist Scholarship, and Radio Berlin in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Experiences in the West; Umar Ryad 6. Iranian Journals in Berlin during the Interwar Period; Mohammed Alsulami 7. Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali and His Worlds: Pan-Islam, Colonialism and Radical politics; Humayun Ansari 8. Victims, Wives, and Concubines: The Spanish Civil War and Relations between Moroccan Troops and Spanish Women; Ali al-Tuma