Islamic literature in Romania. Sources, Dissemination, and Types of Material Cover Image

Literatura islamică din România. Surse, diseminare și tipuri de material
Islamic literature in Romania. Sources, Dissemination, and Types of Material

Author(s): Andrei Crişan
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of ideas, Islam studies, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Islam; religious activism; proselytism; Muslim NGOs; Islamic literature;

Summary/Abstract: Among the Muslim community in Romania, especially among Romanians converted to Islam, there is an extensive amount of Islamic materials written or translated into the Romanian language. Most of these materials are translations, from Arabic and English, of texts with religious content, written by Muslim authors from outside Romania. Some of these written materials were translated, published and disseminated either as projects of cultural religious organizations or as personal projects of devoted members of the community. Currently, this type of literature that circulates officially, but especially informally, within local different Muslim communities, is unmapped and unreviewed, neither in its content nor in its forms of dissemination (books, magazines, brochures). Especially in the case of printed documents, there are countless unknowns: what was printed, when it was printed, how it was printed, by whom and in how many editions.

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: LXI
  • Page Range: 305-314
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian