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Muslims are the largest religious minority in Western Europe. Today there are more than 11/12 million Muslims living in the major countries of the European Union, and Muslims constitute almost 3 percent of the total population in Europe.1
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M.M. Ally, History of Muslims in Britain 1850–1980 ( M.A. Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1981 ).
Jorgen Nielsen, Towards a European Islam ( London: Macmillan Press, 1992 ).
A. Sinno, Deutsche Interessen in Palestina 1841–1898 ( Berlin: Baalbeek, 1982 ).
Felice Dassetto, Brigitte Maréchal and Jorgen Nielsen, eds., Convergences musulmanes, Aspects contemporains de l’islam dans l’Europe élargie ( Louvain la Neuve: Bruylant, 2001 ).
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Cesari, J. (2004). The Numbers Debate. In: When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978561_2
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