Identifies the sometimes confusion and often contentious new challenges that arise in daily life and institutions as Islam settles deeper into Europe.

Part I :Islam and legal and political culture in European society : an overview : Liberal secularism and European Islam : a challenge to Muslims and non-Muslims / Heiner Bielefeldt -- Muslim minorities and democracy : battle of memories versus genuine integration / Guy Haarscher -- Part II : Law and politics : country case studies : Islam and the law in Germany and Europe / Mathias Rohe -- Muslims in Belgium / Rik Torfs -- Private international law : when choice of law principles invoke Islamic rules : a French perspective / Isabelle Barriere Brousse -- Part III : Education and finance : Training of imams / Silvio Ferrari -- Secularism, schools and religious affiliation : for a demanding account of law no. 2004-228 of March 15, 2004 / Alain Garay -- Religion, education, and the Turkish Constitution : a critical assessment / Levent Koker -- Islamic religious education in Bosnia and Herzegovina : between coexistence and segregation / Onder Cetin -- Islamic banking and finance : transplantable models from Malaysia to the EU? / Stefan Messmann -- Part IV : Extremism and security : Danish cartoons crisis revisited / Lisbet Christoffersen -- Islam, Muslims and Islamism : on culturalization and securitization / Petra Wayland -- Countering extremist ideological foundations for terrorism : some reflections / Sharyl Cross.