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Islamic business and Muslim Entrepreneurs networks in Europe: performing transnational modernity and overcoming marginalization

verfasst von: Amel Boubekeur

Erschienen in: Contemporary Islam | Ausgabe 3/2016

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This paper intends to describe new forms of national and transnational solidarity based on individual commitments to Islamic ethics and morality. This process is studied through the practices of young Muslim entrepreneurships that have emerged in the mid-2000s in Europe, promoting and distributing “islamized” conventional products in the fields of leisure, fashions, communication, in line with the cultural globalization as well as creating professional networks. This new market reflects on European Muslim’s desire for social mobility, using Islamized economic opportunities as a response to their marginalization, but also to create new forms of political pressure and religious codes through consumption that are adequate to their western environment.

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Titel: Islamic business and Muslim Entrepreneurs networks in Europe: performing transnational modernity and overcoming marginalization
verfasst von: Amel Boubekeur
Publikationsdatum: 10.05.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Contemporary Islam / Ausgabe 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1872-0218
Elektronische ISSN: 1872-0226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-016-0358-2

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