The Ahmadiyya quest for religious progress : : missionizing Europe 1900-1965 / / by Gerdien Jonker.

• Superior document: Muslim Minorities, Volume 19
• VerfasserIn: Jonker, Gerdien,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Muslim minorities ; Volume 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gerdien Jonker -- Introduction / Gerdien Jonker -- The Founder and His Vision / Gerdien Jonker -- Preparing for Europe / Gerdien Jonker -- Muslim Missions in Interwar Berlin / Gerdien Jonker -- Converts in Search of Religious Progress / Gerdien Jonker -- Jews into Muslims / Gerdien Jonker -- The Berlin Mosque Library as a Site of Religious Exchange / Gerdien Jonker -- The Mission in Nazi Germany / Gerdien Jonker -- Reconfigurations within a Post-colonial World / Gerdien Jonker -- Bibliography / Gerdien Jonker -- Index of Names / Gerdien Jonker -- General Index / Gerdien Jonker.