SOME PROBLEMS OF TRAINING IMAMS IN THE EU (USING THE EXAMPLE OF GERMANY)

Pogorelskaya S.

Abstract

As Muslim diasporas grow in a number of significant EU states, associated with the radicalization of the Islamic world after the end of the era of blocs confrontation, the correlation of the religious life of Muslim diasporas with the requirements of the internal order of the legal democratic state became an increasingly pressing domestic political problem for these countries. One of the significant risk factors for stability and, most importantly, for the integration of diasporas into the life of civil society was the factor of unpredictability of imams, who were often sent to mosques of Islamic unions from abroad and received funding from there. Therefore, the most important domestic political task of European states with significant Muslim communities is the training of Muslim clergy in these states. The article will consider the problems and difficulties associated with this on the example of Germany.

Keywords

Islam in the EU; Islam in Germany; Islamic unions in the EU; imams; Islamic theology.

DOI: 10.31249/rmw/2024.02.07

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