Islamic University of Rotterdam - Volume I Imam Training in the Netherlands: From Debate to Establishment, 1982–1997

About This Volume Islamic University of Rotterdam: Imam Training in the Netherlands – From Debate to Establishment, 1982–1997 examines the historical development of debates on imam training, Islamic spiritual care, and Muslim institutionalization in the Netherlands from the early 1980s onwards. Based on archival documents, policy reports, parliamentary debates, media publications, institutional correspondence, and historical sources, the study reconstructs the long and complex process that ultimately led to the establishment of the Islamic University of Rotterdam (currently the Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, IUASR) in 1997 The volume analyzes the interaction between Dutch integration…