Muslim Populations in Portugal

Lusotopie, 2007

Lusotopie, 2007

Lusotopie

Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2001

... number of Muslims in Portugal increased to 15,000,31 and in the 1990s it rose to 20,000±30,000.32 The ®rst mosque was built in 1982 in Laranjeiro (Comunidade IslaÃmica do Sul de Tejo), followed one year later by the small but impressive Mesquita Aicha Siddika in ...

Islam en lusophonies – Islão nas lusofonias – Islam in Portuguese-speaking areas, special issue of the trilingual peer-reviewed journal LUSOTOPIE (Brill), XIV (1), 303 pages. Now online: http://www.lusotopie.sciencespobordeaux.fr/somma2007.htm

This paper examines processes of residential settlement and incorporation of Lisbon's Muslims arriving first in the post-colonial period and later as international labour migrants. Issues related with Islam in the city are under-researched and seen as unproblematic in Portugal due to lower levels of segregation and the contemporary narrative of Portuguese tolerance. Based on an analysis of the spatiality of Islam in the metropolitan area and the individual accounts of 102 Muslims, this paper explores processes of incorporation, residential choice and belonging. The fragmented mosaic of Muslim settlement in local communities shows the role that religion can play alongside culture in creating spaces of belonging producing multiple experiences of the city. In three different localities-the inner city, an inner suburb and on the urban margin-I investigate the ways in which the cumulative action and agency of Muslim migrants over time transform local spaces and emerging structures for consecutive migrants. This paper argues that urban diversity and temporality provide a lens through which to reconceptualise the traditional choice and constraint debate to better understand the complexity of minority residential patterns and their outcomes.

In Islamic life in Portugal, postcolonial people of Indian-Mozambican background continue playing a key role in Islamic association work. One example is the Youth Association of the Islamic Community (CilJovem) in Lisbon, which gets more engaged in Muslim activities at the international level since 9/11. A study which compares cultural attitudes of these young Portuguese Sunnites with those of non-Muslim peers reveals: Islam and Muslim-ness are important matters; they are deeply attached to their home country and 'mainstream Portuguese' . F or around 30 years, Islamic communities have repre-sented the largest non-Christian religious minority in Portugal. Muslims in Portugal constitute a diverse phe-nomenon, in terms of ethnicity, socio-economic inte-gration, and concerning their religious affiliation in Islam. The contemporary Muslim presence has no socio-demographic linkage to the historical Islamic presence of Gharb Al-Andaluz but is largely the result of postcolonial move...

Abstract: The debate about how to best integrate its growing ethnic minorities, with origin in different parts of the world, is not new in Europe. This debate is closely linked to the rise of extreme-right and populist movements with a declared antiimmigration agenda seen across the continent during the 1990s. Nowadays, approximately 60% of the EU population believes that there are too many immigrants in their countries. This is valid also for Portugal, although until recently it had been a country of emigration. For many decades thousands of people left Portugal for the USA, Canada, Brazil and other developed European countries.

2012

While recent immigration from Muslim countries contributes to the diversification of Islamic life in Portugal, postcolonial people of Indian-Mozambican background continue playing a key role in Islamic association work. One example is the Youth Association of the Islamic Community (CilJovem) in Lisbon, which gets more engaged in Muslim activities at the international level since 9/11. A study which compares cultural attitudes of these young Portuguese Sunnites with those of non-Muslim peers reveals: Islam and Muslim-ness are important matters; they are deeply attached to their home country and ‘mainstream Portuguese’.

2010

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