ABSTRACT
The Muslim population in Germany is by and large a result of ‘guest-worker’ recruitment in the 1960s and early 70s. This population subsequently grew further through family reunification and, since the1980s, refugee settlement. Turkish Muslims constitute the largest ethnic group among Muslim residents in Germany. The Muslim population is estimated to number around 4 million, and almost two-thirds of them are of Turkish descent (Haug et al. 2009: 96). The share of Germany’s population that is Muslim is substantially larger than in Australia or the UK.
