Author: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (2010)

This paper is an attempt to lay out the issues – beyond the purely legal and organisational aspects of integrating Muslim communities into European models of relations between States and religions – that need to be better understood, clarified and addressed for legitimate and effective policy-making to be developed in this complex field. It is an attempt to supplement the extensive mapping exercise performed by the Spanish Justice Ministry of Imam Training provisions in Europe with the beginnings of a problem analysis and suggestions as to further areas for concrete follow-on work.