Muslim Minority-State Relations

This volume explores the dominant types of relationships between Muslim minorities and states in different parts of the world, the challenges each side faces, and the cases and reasons for exemplary integration, religious tolerance, and freedom of expression. By bringing together diverse case studies from Europe, Africa, and Asia, this book offers insight into the nature of state engagement with Muslim communities and Muslim community responses towards the state, in turn. This collection offers readers the opportunity to learn more about what drives government policy on Muslim minority communities, Muslim community policies and responses in turn, and where common ground lies in building religious tolerance, greater community cohesion and enhancing Muslim community-state relations.

Robert Mason is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He specializes in international relations, with a regional emphasis on the Middle East. His latest work is International Politics of the Arab Spring: Popular Unrest and Foreign Policy.

Foreword; John L. Esposito

Preface and Acknowledgements

Executive Summary; Robert Mason

1. Muslim State Relations in Great Britain: An Evolving Story; Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood

2. A Century of the Official Legal Status of Islam in Austria: Between the Law on Islam of 1912 and the Law on Islam of 2015; Agata Skowron-Nalborczyk

3. Relations Between the State and Islam in Finland and Poland; Agata Skowron-Nalborczyk

4. Muslim State Relations in Russia; Galina Yemelianova

5. Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Between Challenge and Opportunity; Zacharias Pierri and Fr. Atta Barkindo

6. Muslim State Relations in Kenya; Mario Aguilar

7. Muslim State Relations in Sri Lanka: A Challenge for Post-Conflict Reconciliation; Amjad Saleem

8. Religion, Nationalism and the Rohingya's Search for Citizenship in Myanmar; Samak Kosem and Amjad Saleem

Notes on Contributors

Index