In the European discourse of post 9/11 reality, concepts such as a oeMulticulturalisma, a oeIntegrationa and a oeEuropean Islama are becoming more and more topical. The empirically- based contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume goes beyond the fragmented methods of minority case studies and the monolithic view of Muslims as portrayed by mass media to present fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social practices. Issues of politics, religion, society, economics, media, art, literature, law and gender are addressed. The result is a vibrant state-of-the-art publication of studies of real-life communities and individuals.

Ala Al-Hamarneh, Ph.D. in human geography (1994), is assistant professor in human geography and a researcher in the Center for Research on the Arab World at the University of Mainz. Issues of migration, poverty, globalization of services and cinematic geo-hermeneutics are in the centre of his academic research.
Jörn Thielmann, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, is since 2009 Executive Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
He is particulary interested in the anthropology of Islam and in Islamic normativities in a transnational context.