Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

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Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been central to the continent's political development and the evolution of its traditions of equality and law. From 1878 into the period following World War II, over a million Ottoman Muslims became citizens of new European states. In Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, Emily Greble follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of these indigenous men, women and children; merchants, peasants, and landowners; muftis and preachers; teachers and students; believers and non-believers from seaside port towns on the shores of the Adriatic to mountainous villages in the Balkans. Drawing on a wide range of archives from government ministries in state capitals to madrasas in provincial towns, Greble uncovers Muslims' negotiations with state authorities--over the boundaries of Islamic law, the nature of religious freedom, and the meaning of minority rights. She shows how their story is Europe's story: Muslims navigated the continent's turbulent passage from imperial order through the interwar political experiments of liberal democracy and authoritarianism to the ideological programs of fascism, socialism, and communism. In doing so, they shaped the grand narratives upon which so much of Europe's fractious present now rests. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe offers a striking new account of the history of citizenship and nation-building, the emergence of minority rights, and the character of secularism. Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Glossary of Islamic Terms List of Foreign Place Names Introduction Part I. The Long Post-Ottoman Transition, 1878–1921 1. Muslim Rights and Political Belonging After the Congress of Berlin 2. Confessional Sovereignty and the Formation of a Muslim Legal Other 3. Survival and Autonomy: Lessons of the Balkan Wars and the First World War 4. Second- or Third-Class Citizens: Becoming Minorities after World War I Part II. Yugoslav Experiments in Nation-Building, 1918–1941 5. The Shari’a Mandate and Yugoslav Nation-Building 6. “The Bonfire of Muslim Unity”: Muslim Politics and the Crisis of Yugoslav Democracy 7. Islamic Legal Revivalism and the Crisis of Europe Part III. War and Political Reordering, 1941–1949 8. “Back to Islam!”: The Promise and Possibility of Hitler’s Europe 9. The Eradication of the Shari’a Legal Order in Tito’s Yugoslavia Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index