Islam in the Nordic and Baltic countries / edited by Göran Larsson..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islam and Muslims in the Nordic and Baltic countries / Gor̈an Larsson -- The Faroe Islands and Iceland / Gor̈an Larsson and Ingvar Svanberg -- Norway / Christine M. Jacobsen -- Denmark / Garbi Schmidt -- Sweden / Gor̈an Larsson -- Finland / Tuomas Martikainen -- Estonia / Aysha Oz̈kan -- Latvia / Emin Poljarevic and Ingvar Svanberg -- Lithuania / Egdunas Racius -- List of contributors.

Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and includes chapters on Islam in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. With contributions by academics with long experience of the Muslim communities in question based on original research, this volume presents new and important perspectives within a comparative and regional framework. Islam in Nordic and Baltic Countries will be an important reference work for students of European history and Islamology, and will be valuable to all researchers and scholars interested in the development of Islam and Muslim communities at the strategic heart of Northern Europe.