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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Islam in the Baltic: Europe's Early Muslim Community

Islam in the Baltic: Europe's Early Muslim Community

Norris, Harry

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Historical Studies

IslamBaltic HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1845115872
ISBN13: 9781845115876
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 30 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Arriving in Europe in the 14th century, the Qipchq Tatars are the longest surviving Muslim people in Europe. They form the historical core of the Muslim community in the Baltic States, Belarus and Poland where Muslims are few in number compared with those in other parts of the European Union and in Russia. In the first historical study of this important community, Harry Norris investigates the earliest contacts between the Baltic peoples and the world of Islam. He examines the trade routes of the Vikings and the early Slavs and Balts who had commercial relations with Arab merchants, trading in amber, furs, Middle Eastern silks and other luxury goods. Norris surveys the Qipchq Tatars' history, their Muslim faith, their culture, their literature and their life as indigenous Europeans in New Europe today. He draws contrasts and similarities between other Muslim communities in Europe, including the diverse immigrant Muslim groups in the Nordic countries that border the Baltic Sea: Finland, Sweden and Denmark.

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