The twelfth volume of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe covers the calendar year of 2019, but has been in the making under the cloud of the covid-19 pandemic, which hit Europe in the early spring of 2020.

When we started to work on the Yearbook in mid-2019 we were confronted with another, still timely thought: that it has an aftertaste to single out a religious community. To take a closer look at doing this during a time of the rise of the populist (radical) right in several European countries, and the growing popularity of nationalism in …