ABSTRACT
It is always an interesting experience to look back at what one wrote some years ago. Ten years ago, in my overview of Muslims in western Europe [Nielsen, 1992:165], I noted the appearance of
…the generation of young Muslims born or grown up in Europe. These people, especially in Britain and France, have been through a European system of education…and are consciously undertaking the analysis of Islam and its cultural expression necessary for Islam to remain meaningful to them and to their children in turn.
