Introduction

Within the wide-ranging study of Islam and Muslims in Europe, there are numerous works that in one way or the other relate to the role, status, and content of Islamic knowledge in Europe.One notable publication is Martin van Bruinessen and Stefano Allievi's edited volume Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe.1In that book, different Muslim actors and their various audiences are investigated with a focus on what counts as authoritative knowledge in certain settings.The diverse roles of Muslims with certain forms of learning are also examined.Its contributing authors investigate a selection of Muslim communities as well as particular intellectual and communicative fields and practices.More recently, Masooda Bano has authored and edited several works that look more closely at transnational Muslim schools of thought and educational traditions with important trajectories in European settings.2In addition, several works in recent years, in particular anthropological ones, have offered detailed insights into how individuals and local groups have engaged themselves in the production, reception, negotiation, and reformulation of distinct aspects of Islamic knowledge tra-1