The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress

Missionizing Europe 1900-1965
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30529-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 536 g

Reihe: Muslim Minorities

What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest.

Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jonker, Gerdientje

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Einzelne Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Note on Spelling
Glossary of German Terms
Glossary of Islamic Terms

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Founder and His Vision
Chapter 2. Preparing for Europe
Chapter 3. Muslim Missions in Interwar Berlin
Chapter 4. Converts in Search of Religious Progress
Chapter 5. Jews into Muslims
Chapter 6. The Berlin Mosque Library as a Site of Religious Exchange
Chapter 7. The Mission in Nazi Germany
Chapter 8. Reconfigurations within a Post-colonial World

Archival Materials
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Gerdien Jonker, Ph.D. (1993), Groningen University, is senior researcher at Erlangen University focusing on the history and ethnography of Muslims in Europe. Her numerous publications include twelve books, among them Narrating Islam. The Muslim World in European Texts (I.B. Tauris, 2009).