Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe
New book by Amr Ryad and Götz Nordbruch
Together with Dr. Götz Nordbruch, Dr. Umar Ryad has published a book that addresses the transnational history of Muslim intellectuals. The edited volume, entitled Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe. Muslim Activists and Thinkers is part of the book series The Modern Muslim World.
The study of Muslim experiences in and with Europe during the interwar period is still in its initial phase. Addressing a gap, Ryad and Nordbruch bring together the insights of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine Muslim networks and actors in interwar Europe.
The book shows a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of their activities. Drawing on official and personal archives and contemporary writings that have been largely ignored in the study of Europe, the contributors place Muslim activities within global political and intellectual history. They analyse significant socio-political ideals and religious affiliations, as well as the broader social, political, religious, and cultural mobility patterns of Muslims as new social actors in the Europe of that era. Together, the chapters reveal the importance of the geopolitical and intellectual East-West networks of the interwar period.
The authors
Umar Ryad is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research interests include the modern history of Muslim-Christian relations, developments of Muslim reformist thought, and transnational Muslim movements in interwar Europe. Ryad recently received a grant from the Europe Research Council for his research on the history of Muslim intellectuals in interwar Europe.
Götz Nordbruch is a researcher at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Brunswick, Germany. His research focuses on European-Middle Eastern intellectual encounters in the early twentieth century.
- Title: Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe. Muslim Activists and Thinkers
- Authors: Amr Ryad and Götz Nordbruch
- ISBN: 978-1-137-38703-5
- Publisher: 2015, Palgrave/Mcmillan