The Emergence of a Muslim Community in Germany (VIDEO)

Lecture by Riem Spielhaus

Thursday, November 4, 2010 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
Mason Hall, Conference Room D3AB

While the German public imagines a homogenuous Muslim community, it consists of many different and competing voices. A shared sense of community among Muslims of different national, linguistic and political backgrounds is only slowly emerging. This development is marked by several nationwide media debates which have led Muslim journalists, intellectuals and public personalities to self-identify as such. Riem Spielhaus offers a closer look at how prominent individuals of Muslim background and Islamic communalists have drawn on their Muslim identity to raise/answer the urgent question: "Who can speak for Muslims?"

Note: Spielhaus lecture report available here.

Riem Spielhaus is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen. She obtained her MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research focuses on the religious practice of Muslims and the institutionalization of Islam in Germany and Europe.  Her dissertation on the emergence of a Muslim community in Germany between ascription and self-identification was awarded the Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies in 2010.

 

 

 

Riem Spielhaus Lecture Video: The Emergence of a Muslim Community in Germany

Sponsored by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.