Muslims in Europe into the Next Millennium

Abstract

There is a widespread feeling that we are at the present time experiencing a period of rapid change of historical proportions. The collapse of communism and the sudden flurry of attempts to settle long-standing tensions, such as those in South Africa and Palestine, combine with the outbreak of new categories of crisis, such as those in Bosnia and Central Asia, to give a sense of an historical turning point. Ideas of the ‘end of history’ and a new ‘clash of civilisations’ appear in prestigious publications across the Atlantic.