Lived Space: Reconsidering Transnationalism Among Muslim Minorities

This book presents original research on the practical creation or use of places, homes, senses of loyalty and feelings of togetherness among Muslim minorities in Europe. The individual chapters deal with examples of Muslim homing or sense-making strategies, or the possibilities thereof, in Britain, Denmark, and Ireland. Through their research, the authors challenge prevalent perspectives in research on Muslims in Europe such as the transnational perspective and the Orientalism perspective. The chapters are inspired by recent cultural and human geography in order to emphasize the spatiality of homing and sense-making strategies.

Jakob Egholm Feldt is Associate Professor of Modern History at Roskilde University (Denmark).
Kirstine Sinclair lectures at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark.