MUSLIM IDENTITY: CHALLENGES IT FACES IN TODAY’S EUROPE

Abstract

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Raisu-l-ulama of The Islamic Community in B&H, delivered a lecture at The International University in Sarajevo on 4 April 2018. The topic of the lecture was the identity of Muslims and the challenges it faces in Europe today. This article contains arguments and elaborates upon the views presented in the lecture. The author, as Raisu-l-ulama of the IC in B&H, discusses the issue of the fate of Muslims as an individual and as a community in today’s world of Europe, comparing his own experience and thought with views of some leading authors who wrote of Islam and Muslims in contemporary European context. He answers the question whether or not today’s Muslims of Europe still bare within themselves the authentic image of the world of Islam or have they lost it. The author also reflects upon the issue of the place of man, his being, his freedom and his freedom of choice as well as upon his tragic fate, which is, according to him the centra theme of all Devine Revelations, the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qur’an.