ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the various religious trends in European Islam by identifying examples of leadership and highlighting areas where trends interact to construct a training agenda for imams. It highlights the schematized training spaces that intellectually nourish the individual beliefs of particular citizens of Muslim faith, who are considered sources of future Muslim discursive practices. These discursive practices, in turn, can be considered tools for future religious leaders who seek to reconstruct the dominant Islamic discourse in Europe. Several major intertwining elements are studied in this chapter: mosques, imams, space and identity dynamics, actors of Islam and the construction of leadership, the formation of authority in European Islam, and the training of imams in Europe.
