Islamic Theology at Western European Universities : Articulating Ikhtilāf in the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Austria /

Islamic Theology at Western European Universities : Articulating Ikhtilāf in the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Austria /

In recent years, several Western European universities have started academic programs in Islamic theology. This study answers a much-debated question: How do Islamic theologians at Western European universities face the challenging task of administering, elaborating and developing Islamic knowledge...

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Main Author: Boender, Welmoet (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026
Muslim Minorities ; 49.

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Contemporary Islam.
Education Policy & Politics.
Education.
Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: LA227.3

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • 1 Challenges of Islamic University Theology in the Western European Context
  •  1.1 Introduction
  •  1.2 Muslims in Europe and the Shaping of Islam
  •  1.3 Thinking about the Legitimacy of Islamic Theology at Publicly Funded Universities
  •  1.4 What Is Islamic Theology?
  •  1.5 Islamic Theology in the Western Genealogy of the Study of Islam
  •  1.6 Questions Posed to Islamic Theology in the European Context
  •  1.7 Need for an Overview Study of the First Ten Years
  •  1.8 Outline of the Study
  • 2 Making Space for Islamic Theology: Institutional Complexities in the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Austria
  •  2.1 Introduction
  •  2.2 The Netherlands
  •  2.3 Germany
  •  2.4 United Kingdom
  •  2.5 Austria
  •  2.6 Concluding Remarks
  • 3 Islamic University Theology as a Project: Conceptual Comprehensions
  •  3.1 Introduction
  •  3.2 Islamic Theology as Emancipatory Project
  •  3.3 Islamic Theology as Epistemological and Methodological Project
  •  3.4 Islamic Theology as Theological Project
  •  3.5 Islamic Theology as 'European Islam' Project
  •  3.6 Islamic Theology as Academic Project
  •  3.7 Concluding Remarks
  • 4 A Helicopter View on the Topics of the Academic Publications
  •  4.1 Introduction
  •  4.2 A Bird's Eye View
  •  4.3 Argumentative Directions
  •  4.4 Concluding Remarks
  • 5 Epistemological and Methodological Elaborations of Three Prominent Themes
  •  5.1 Introduction
  •  5.2 Education and Religious Pedagogy
  •  5.3 Qurʾan Hermeneutics
  •  5.4 History of Islamic Thought
  •  5.5 Concluding Remarks
  • 6 The University as a Platform for Intellectual Reflection and Renewal
  •  6.1 Introduction
  •  6.2 Intellectual Reflections in and on Europe
  •  6.3 Discussions among Female Theologians
  •  6.4 'Alternative' Academic Theological Proposals: Touching the Boundaries of Normativity?
  •  6.5 Concluding Remarks
  • 7 Articulating ikhtilāf : the Paradigmatic Plurality of Islamic Theology at Western European Universities
  •  7.1 Introduction
  •  7.2 Mobilisation of a Paradigm Shift
  •  7.3 Concluding Remarks
  • 8 On the Legitimacy of Islamic Theology at Western European Universities
  •  8.1 Directions of Islamic University Theology in Western Europe
  •  8.2 Transformative Impact?
  •  8.3 Final Words: the Inherent Legitimacy of Islamic University Theology
  • Bibliography
  • Index.