Islamic Textbooks and Curricula in Europe

This volume is a result of the conference Islamic Textbooks and Curricula in South East Europe held in Sarajevo, 21st to 25th October 2010. One of the aims of the conference was to critically assess the existing curricula and textbooks for Muslim education in Europe and to discuss the directions textbook and curricular development needs to take in the near term. This critical assessment and visioning took place in dialogue with the experiences of long-established churches and religious communities. The conference concluded that an emphasis on the European characteristics of Islam is essential in religious education.

Ednan Aslan is a Chair of the Research Unit «Islamic Religious Education» at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna. He is responsible for teachers’ training in Islamic religious education and is chairperson of different working groups on the development of curricula in Germany, Austria and Southeast Europe. He has published intensively on Islamic religious education in Europe.