Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself.
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.
By:
Emily Greble
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 165mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 702g
ISBN: 9780197538807
ISBN 10: 0197538800
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 01 June 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Glossary of Islamic Terms List of Foreign Place Names Introduction Part I: The Long Post-Ottoman Transition, 1878-1921 Chapter 1: Muslim Rights and Political Belonging after the Congress of Berlin Chapter 2: Confessional Sovereignty and the Formation of a Muslim Legal Other Chapter 3: Survival and Autonomy: Lessons of the Balkan Wars and the First World War Chapter 4: Second or Third Class Citizens: Becoming Minorities after World War I Part II: Yugoslav Experiments in Nation-Building, 1918-1941 Chapter 5: The Shari'a Mandate and Yugoslav Nation-Building Chapter 6: The Bonfire of Muslim Unity : Misfortunes of Yugoslav Democracy and Authoritarianism Chapter 7: Islamic Legal Revivalism and the Crisis of Europe Part III: War and Political Reordering, 1941-1949 Chapter 8: Back to Islam! : The Promise and Possibility of Hitler's Europe Chapter 9: The Eradication of the Shari'a Legal Order in Tito's Yugoslavia Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Emily Greble is Associate Professor of History and Russian and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe.
Reviews for Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe
Focusing on the historic place of Muslims in southeastern Europe, and on the contradictory ways states have attempted to categorize and manage them, this brilliant study confronts readers with the pressing question of who exactly constitute 'the Europeans.' * Pieter M. Judson, author of The Habsburg Empire: A New History * Greble shows that far from being a recent addition to European societies, Muslim populations have been integral to European states and societies for much longer than contemporary headlines on immigrants, guest workers, and refugees would suggest. In this important study Greble reveals the ways in which Muslims have been at the heart of the making of law, politics, and society in modern Europe. * Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown University * In this bold study, Emily Greble addresses the question 'Who is European?' by showing the organic place and active participation of Muslims throughout modern European history. Using the example of the former Yugoslav space until the 1940s, her thorough research deftly overturns the usual perspective of the state assigning a place for Muslims. Instead, she emphasizes the agency of Muslims seeking to define and place themselves as citizens within a European framework. * Maria Todorova, author of Imagining the Balkans * Emily Greble's Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe is an erudite and meticulously researched history of Europe's Muslim populations in the twentieth century. Greble teaches us that we will not be able to understand the genealogies of secularism, nationalism, liberalism, citizenship, and human rights without the crucial significance of Muslims in the making of modern Europe. This will prove an indispensable scholarly intervention to shatter the extremist ideologies that rely on the narratives of the clash of civilizations. * Cemil Aydin, author of The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History *
- Winner of Honorable Mention, Book Award of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
- Winner of Winner, Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities Honorable Mention, Book Award of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
