Islamic community of Bosniaks in Germany

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Islamic community of Bosniaks in Germany
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legal form registered association
founding 1994
Seat Wiesbaden
precursor Association of the Islamic Communities of Bosniaks in Germany
Chair Pašo Fetić
Members 76 mosque communities
Website igbd.org

The Islamic Community of Bosniaks in Germany (IGBD) ( Bosnian Islamska zajednica Bošnjaka u Njemačkoj ) is the umbrella organization of Bosnian Muslims based in Wiesbaden in Hesse . The association is a member of the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany and the Central Council of Muslims in Germany , but only sees itself there in an observing role.

The first Islamic community of Bosniaks in Germany was founded in 1978 in Aachen. Before the Bosnian War there were around 20 municipalities in Germany, which increased rapidly due to the large number of refugees and displaced persons from Bosnia in the period after 1992 and reached around 50 in January 1994 (1997: 53 municipalities). On January 10, 1994, Mustafa Cerić , who was staying in Germany at the time, appointed Imam Mustafa Klanco as Chief Imam of the Islamic Community in Germany.

At the end of 1994 a federal umbrella organization was founded in Dortmund as the Association of Islamic Communities of Bosniaks in Germany (VIGB) . It was integrated as a district abroad into the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Islamska zajednica u Bosni i Hercegovini , IZ BiH), and also sends two delegates to the general assembly ( sabor ) in Sarajevo. Today the umbrella organization, renamed Islamic Community of Bosniaks in Germany eV , counts 76 Bosniak mosque communities , which are organized in six regional units under the direction of the Regionalimame with regional focuses in North Rhine-Westphalia , Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . 49 of them have permanent and officially appointed imams , while 12 of them only work on weekends and on a fee basis.

The headquarters of the IGBD now maintains three full-time people in order to work more professionally and to present the association better and to be able to make more contacts. An association representative has been participating in one of the three working groups at the German Islam Conference since 2006. Although the association is theoretically represented by the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany (KRM) due to its membership of the Islam Council and the ZMD , it "only learned about the founding of the KRM from the newspaper" and has not yet participated in meetings.

The largest Bosnian mosque in Germany is located in Cologne in a former factory complex bought in 1997 and reopened in 2008. It stands on a plot of 3,370 square meters which, in addition to the mosque, houses an apartment for the imam, a café, a grocery store and a classroom for schoolchildren and which is part of the vacuf of the Islamic community in Bosnia. Of the 4,000 to 5,000 Bosnian Muslims in Cologne, only about a quarter take part in community life. The VIGB estimated that around 6% of Bosniaks in Germany give him the zakat . The number of Bosnian Muslims in Germany is not recorded statistically, but it is estimated to be in the region of 167,000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Member communities of the IGBD on the website: [1] As of February 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Bridge to the Islamic World. What makes the Bosnian Muslims a model By Hansjörg Schmid, Herder Korrespondenz - Monthly Issues for Society and Religion, Volume 62, Issue 2, February 2008, pp. 98-103
  3. ↑ a b Xavier BOUGAREL: “Balkan Muslim Diasporas and the Idea of ​​a 'European Islam'” ( MS Word ; 114 kB) in: Tomislav Dulić et alii (eds.), Balkan Currents. Essays in Honor of Kjell Magnusson, Uppsala: Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 49, 2005, pp. 147-165.
  4. ↑ a b Self-presentation on the IGBD website (German) ( Bosnian ), accessed on August 7, 2009
  5. ↑ a b A Bridge from Islam to Europe "IZ Encounter" with Hasib Sahovic and Imam Mustafa Hodzic from the Bosnian cultural community in Cologne, Islamische Zeitung from May 27, 2008
  6. ↑ REPORT / 072: On the way to German society - The demands on the Muslim associations are growing By Marfa Heimbach, Herder Korrespondenz 4/2009, pp. 189–193
  7. ↑ Islamska kulturna zajednica Bošnjaka "Gazi Husrev-beg" (BIKZ "Gazi Husrev Beg") Vogelsangerstr. 210, Cologne
  8. ↑ The Orient in Ehrenfeld By PETRA RECKTENWALD, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger of February 12, 2008
  9. ^ Association history on the Dzemat Cologne website ( Memento from June 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Largest mosque for Bosnian Muslims in Germany - opening in Cologne Islamische Zeitung on May 14, 2008
  11. ^ "Islam in Germany" by Faruk Şen, Hayrettin Aydın. Beck 2002 ISBN 3-406-47606-6