Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 3

Editor-in-Chief J rgen S. Nielsen, Ph.D. (1978) in Arab history, American University of Beirut, has researched and published extensively on Islam in Europe, including "Muslims in Western Europe" (3rd ed., Edinburgh University Press, 2004). He is currently Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Editors Samim Akg n l, Ph.D. (2001), historian and political scientist, is Associate Professor at Strasbourg University and senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He studies the evolution of minority concepts as well as religious minorities in Eastern and Western Europe. Ahmet Aliba i is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, and director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Sarajevo. He was educated in Kuala Lumpur (Islamic studies, political sciences, and Islamic civilization). He also served as the first director of the Interreligious Institute in Sarajevo (2007-2008). Hugh Goddard, Ph.D. (1984) in Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Birmingham, is Director of the HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh. He has written on Christian-Muslim Relations in both Muslim-majority and Christian-majority contexts, and is the author of "A History of Christian-Muslim Relations" (Edinburgh University Press, 2000). Brigitte Mar chal, Ph.D. (2006) in sociology, graduated in political sciences and islamology. She is Professor at the Universit Catholique de Louvain and director of Cismoc (Centre Interdisciplinaire d Etudes de l Islam dans le Monde Contemporain). She has published extensively on European Islam and is the author of "The Muslim Brothers in Europe - Roots and Discourse" (Brill, 2008).