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Relations between the Austrian state and Islam are quite unique for a European country. They can be divided into two stages marked by two significant events in the development of those relations. The first stage, from 1878 to 1918 was connected with the political events in the Balkans, in which Austria (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) was an active player and as a result of this activity Bosnian Muslims were put under its rule. The second stage started in the latter half of the twentieth century and is related to the influx of economically motivated immigrants of Muslim background.
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Relations between the Austrian state and Islam are quite unique for a European country. They can be divided into two stages marked by two significant events in the development of those relations. The first stage, from 1878 to 1918 was connected with the political events in the Balkans, in which Austria (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) was an active player and as a result of this activity Bosnian Muslims were put under its rule. The second stage started in the latter half of the twentieth century and is related to the influx of economically motivated immigrants of Muslim background. The first stage resulted in a legal recognition of Islam as a religion; the second is characterized by the functioning of this legal act either in its original form until 2015 or by the amended bill passed in February 2015.
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This page is a summary of: A Century of the Official Legal Status of Islam in Austria: Between the Law on Islam of 1912 and the Law on Islam of 2015, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-52605-2_3.
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