The study of religion and the training of Muslim clergy in Europe : academic and religious freedom in the 21st century / edited by Willem B. Drees, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The volume presented here offers most of the lectures and a few additional contribution [of] a conference on Academic Freedom and Religious Freedom: Tensions and Compromises in the Coexistence of Two Fundamental Rights, held on 27 and 28 February 2007 in Leiden"--Page 11.

Academic and religious freedom: an introduction / Willem B. Drees and Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld -- Academic freedom and competing authorities: historical reflections / Ernan McMullin -- Freedom of thought and the authority of tradition in modern Jewish philosophy: the cases of Spinoza and Mendelssohn / Reinier Munk -- Academic freedom and the symbolic significance of evolution / Willem B. Drees -- Dismissal of A.J. Wensinck from the Royal Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo / Umar Ryad -- Historical method of biblical interpretation: its nature, use, origin and limitations / Henk Jan de Jonge -- Trial of thought: modern inquisition in Egypt : a case study / Nasr Hamid Abu-Zayd. My testimony on the case of Abu-Zayd / Mona Zulficar -- Academic freedom in Islamic studies and the surveillance by Muslim activists in Indonesia / Muhammad Machasin -- Historians of religion as agents of religious change / Albert de Jong -- Passing storm or a structural shift? Challenges to academic freedom in the United States after September 11 / Beshara Doumani -- In the wake of the cartoon crisis: freedom of expression of academics in Denmark / Tim Jensen -- History of the institutionalized training of imams in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Mustafa Cerić. A draft proposal for the Gazi Husrev-bey University -- Training of imams by the Third Reich / Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld. Bundesarchiv Abteilung III Aussenstelle Berlin-Zehlendorf, Document Nr. A 54,7 R.920 : Extract of the passages relevant to the imam courses of the Third Reich -- Academic training of imams: recent discussions and initiatives in the Netherlands / Mohammed M. Ghaly -- Non-formal Islamic higher education in the Netherlands: with some comparative notes on France and the United Kingdom / Firdaous Oueslati -- Islamic religious pedagogy at the University of Vienna / Ednan Aslan. Legitimizing Islamic theology at European universities / Birgitte Schepelern Johansen -- Training programme of imams in Italy / Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini.

Religious scholarship can be offensive to believers, as conflicts from the time of Galileo and Spinoza to the recent critique of Danish religious scholars in the wake of the infamous Muhammad cartoons have shown. Studies of this type of scholarship have been appropriated by believers as a means of reinventing their own identities - as the training of twentieth-century Muslim clergy demonstrates. This volume offers a unique collection of training materials from European Muslim clergy since the 1940s - including Third Reich reports on debriefing imams, surveillance files on Muslim activists, and information on Bosnian clergy and their training centres - as well as an exploration of religion and academic freedom in general, accompanied by appendices in both Arabic and English. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789087280253.

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Articles in English with some excerpts from relevant Arabic and German sources.