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See also Iceland in 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations1 According to available historical records and folklore traditions, the first contact Iceland had with Muslims goes back to the summer of 1627, when a group of so-called ‘Turkish pirates’, who had actually travelled from North Africa, raided settlements on the south-west coast, the Westman Islands and the eastern fjords. This episode is of no importance for the composition of the Muslim community in Iceland today…

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. Introduction The Muslim population of Sweden is very diverse in its ethnic and linguistic composition, and no group is in a clearly dominant position. Up until the mid-1980s, the largest single Muslim group consisted of people with a Turkish background, but since then it has not been possible to talk about one group as being numerically dominant, and today Sweden’s Muslim communities are made up of Arabs, Iranians, Af…

See also Iceland in 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The data for this country report are primarily based on official statistics, online information published by the Association of Muslims in Iceland ( Félag múslima á Íslandi) and media reports.1 There are hardly any academic studies of Islam and Muslims in Iceland, the main reason being that very few Muslims live in this geographically remote part of Europe. According to historical records and folklore traditions, the first contact Iceland ha…

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The last official census to include information about religious affiliation was collected in 1930 and 15 individuals were recorded as Muslims in that year.1 However, larger numbers of Muslims started to arrive in the 1960s and 1970s, and the figure for today varies between 350,000 and 400,000 out of a total Swedish population of approximately 9,400,000. This estimate is not supported by hard evidence as it is against the …

See also Iceland in 2009 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations atThe da for this country report are primarily based on official statistics, online information published by the Association of Muslims in Iceland ( Félag múslima á Íslandi) and media reports.1 There are hardly any academic studies on Islam and Muslims in Iceland, the main reason being that very few Muslims live in this geographically remote part of Europe. According to historical records and folklore traditions, the first contact Iceland ha…

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. Introduction The Muslim population of Sweden is very diverse when it comes to ethnic and linguistic background, and no group is in a clearly dominant position. Up until the mid-1980s the largest single Muslim group consisted of people from a Turkish background, but since then it has not been possible to talk about one group as being numerically dominant, and today Muslim communities are made up of Arabs, Iranians, Afr…

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The last official census to include information about religious affiliation was collected in 1930, and 15 individuals were recorded as ‘Muslims and other Asian religions’ in that year.1 If we look more closely into the data it is clear that the number of Muslims could have been between 11 or 4 individuals, depending on how the statistical information should be read and analysed.2 However, larger numbers of Muslims started to arrive in the 1960s and 1970s, and …

See also Sweden in 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The last official census to include information about religious affiliation was collected in 1930 and fifteen individuals were recorded as Muslims in that year.1 However, larger numbers of Muslims started to arrive in the 1960s and 1970s, and the figure for today varies between 350,000 and 400,000 out of a total Swedish population of 9,000,000. This estimate is not supported by hard data as it is against the law to collec…

Bibliographical information and academic databases clearly indicate that the study of Islam and Muslims is a maturing research area within the broader field of religious and social studies in the West. This observation is also true for the Nordic countries.1 However, even though the quantity of publications has grown over the years, it is evident that most academics working on Islam in the Nordic countries seem to have limited possibilities to do fieldwork or thorough comparative and longitudinal studies covering more than one countr…

See also Iceland in 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The data for this country report are primarily based on official statistics, online information published by the Association of Muslims in Iceland ( Félag múslima á Íslandi) and media reports.1 There are hardly any academic studies of Islam and Muslims in Iceland, the main reason being that very few Muslims live in this geographically remote part of Europe. According to historical records and folklore traditions, the first contact Iceland ha…

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The last official census to include information about religious affiliation was collected in 1930 and 15 individuals were recorded as Muslims in that year.1 However, larger numbers of Muslims started to arrive in the 1960s and 1970s, and the figure for today varies between 350,000 and 400,000 out of a total Swedish population of approximately 9,480,000. This estimate is not supported by hard evidence as it is against the …

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The last official census to include information about religious affiliation was collected in 1930 and 15 individuals were recorded as Muslims in that year.1 However, larger numbers of Muslims started to arrive in the 1960s and 1970s, and the figure for today varies between 350,000 and 400,000 out of a total Swedish population of approximately 9,550,000. This estimate is not supported by hard evidence as it is, on the basi…

See also Sweden in 2008 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021. 1 Muslim Populations The last official census to include information about religious affiliation was collected in 1930 and 15 individuals were recorded as Muslims in that year.1 However, larger numbers of Muslims started to arrive in the 1960s and 1970s, and the figure for today varies between 350,000 and 400,000 out of a total Swedish population of 9,000,000. This estimate is not supported by hard evidence as it is against the law to collect…

Shari‘a as Discourse: Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe. Ed. Jørgen S. Nielsen and Lisbet Christoffersen. Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. ix+267. Hbk. ISBN 9780754679554. £65.00. Shari‘a as Discourse: Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe provides the reader with an excellent introduction to, and overview of, the debate about Islamic jurisprudence and Western legal philosophy and traditions. Even though it would be wrong to argue that current European legal systems are opening themselves up to ideas r…

previous chapter Family law covers a broad sphere of legal questions, such as marriage1 and divorce, child custody, spouses’ and cohabitees’ property rights, and maintenance and inheritance, on the substantive lev…

previous chapter From a legal point of view, religion is not an issue for the development of Swedish integration laws but, that said, it is evident that public debates and notions are often coloured by …

previous chapter Spiritual care in prisons and hospitals has a long history in Sweden.1 For example, the Church of Sweden has played a central role in the development of both punishment regimes (prisons) and proce…

previous chapter Like many other countries in Europe, Sweden banned Jewish kosher slaughter in 1937.1 As Göran Gunner and others have pointed out, this ban seems to have reflected public debates in the 1930s and th…

previous chapter Under the heading criminal law, we will discuss laws and regulations that concern male circumcision, female genital mutilation and forced marriages in relation to Islam and Muslim affairs. 13.1 Male Circumcision The …

previous chapter This chapter provides an overview of how the Swedish state organises its support for religious communities (Islamic religious communities included). The relationship between the state a…