Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Orel Beilinson

Tel Aviv University
Orel Beilinson
Islam in the Balkans: Globalization, Europeanization, Localization
July 24, 2018
The study of European Islam is now experiencing an unprecedented revival. While most of its attention is dedicated to Islam as a minority in ‘Christian’ Europe, countries such as Bosnia and Albania have not lost their importance in Westerner’s eyes, much of it due to the region’s political upheavals, fueled by the ever-lurking danger of terrorism, both in the Balkans and by people of the Balkans abroad. Three of the four books reviewed here discuss Southeastern Europe, and the fourth one is a collection of papers covering the entire spectrum of European Islam.

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