societies - people with MENA roots are often essentialised as a homogenous group of overtly religious Muslims. The simplistic … nexus of failed integration, Islamic fundamentalism and home-grown extremism fails to question the discriminatory backdrop … of integration policies in European nation states and does not explain why only a tiny minority of Muslims participate in …

Is Islam compatible with democracy? While recent developments in Northern Africa and the Middle East have added new … urgency to this question, the literature seems stuck with an apparent paradox of Muslims expressing a strong desire for … democracy, but democratic institutions not actually taking hold in the Islamic world. We contribute to the debate by shifting …

In recent decades, Islamic Finance has seen an interesting growth and spread, not only in the Arab or other Muslim, but … also in Western countries. This article focuses on Islamic Finance in Germany, a European country characterized by strong … economic growth and an increasing Muslim community, mostly of Turkish origin, which saw the opening of its first Islamic Bank …