Addresses some of the fundamental issues born of the several million strong Muslim presence in Europe in our times. Based on a thorough study of Islamic sources, it seeks to answer basic questions about a European Muslim’s social, political, cultural and legal life as a practising Muslim while ‘living together’ in multi-faith, pluralistic European nation states.

‘…the first generation of European Muslims, those who have grown up in western Europe, are asking fundamental questions about Islam….What has not been done systematically before in the contemporary European context has been to explore the resources of the mainstream tradition and their usefulness in this new environment… Now Dr. Ramadan has provided us with the first major attempt to apply this process to the situation of Muslims in Europe...’

Professor Jørgen S. Neilsen, Director,

Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Birmingham, U.K.