MOSQUE ARCHIVES IN GERMANY. SPECIAL ISSUE.
JOURNAL OF MUSLIMS IN EUROPE 3/2022
Leiden: EJ BRILL 2022
Mosque archives in European countries have not previously been consulted for research on Muslims in Europe. With this Special Issue, we want to draw attention to their position, starting with a study of mosque archives in Germany. Our primary aim is to raise awareness among scholars of mosque archives as a resource for research on Muslim life and Islam. Towards that aim, this issue offers an overview of different kinds of mosque archives concerning their historical period(s). It opens a window onto the administrators of mosque archives and their approaches to collecting relics of the past.
Questions target the places where mosque administrations safeguard their past records, how this is done and with what results, who is responsible for this task, how that past speaks to the present, and, not least, what happens to a mosque community when researchers pose such questions?
Table of Contents
Introduction
Gerdien Jonker and Stephanie Müssig
Gerdien Jonker
Overviewing a Century. The Lahore-Ahmadiyya Mosque Archive in Berlin
Raja Chbib /Julius Matuschik
Mosque Registries of the 1950s in Focus. A photographic Inquiry
Gerdien Jonker, Isabel Elbel, Arne Klein, Jule Klopke, Stephanie Müssig, Jens Schönstedt and Viktoria Ulbricht
Turkish Mosque Archives in Industrial Towns in Southern Germany. An Ethnographic Survey
Mahmud Jaraba
Problems concerning Archiving Nikah Documents in Arab Mosques
Samira Tabti
Digital Mosque: Muslim communities in Germany and their digital strategies in the COVID-19 pandemic
Stephanie Müssig
Factors That Shape Mosque Archives
Bekim Agai
Mosques Archives and a Muslim Collective Memory in Formation
The research was supported by the German Research Community (DFG)
