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In Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany, Kerstin Rosenow-Williams analyzes the challenges faced by Islamic organizations in Germany since the beginning of the 21st century, providing original empirical insights based on an innovative sociological research perspective

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Studying Islamic Organizations: Empirical and Theoretical Approaches -- A New Research Framework: Applying Organizational Sociology to the Study of Islamic Organizations -- The Institutional Environment: A Macro-Perspective on the Changing Discourses on Islam, Integration, and Security in Germany -- The Individual Organization: A Micro-Perspective on the Organizational Behavior of Three Islamic Umbrella Organizations -- The Organizational Field of Islamic Organizations in Germany: A Meso Perspective on Shifting Relationships and Interactions -- Conclusion and Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Organizations -- Index of Selected Authors.

This article utilizes an analytical framework that examines the differences in the organizational forms and strategies of Islamic organizations with reference to both internal and external factors affecting the organization, such as internal organizational characteristics and national and transnational political opportunity structures. This perspective is applied to review the empirical results of recent secondary studies from a cross-national and transatlantic perspective. In particular, this paper centres around a meta-analysis of research findings collected in the volume Islamic organizations in Europe and the USA: A multidisciplinary perspective, edited by Kortmann and Rosenow-Williams (2013), which presents new empirical research on Islamic organizations in the USA, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the Baltic States, Poland, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland.

Since 9/11, attention to Islamic migrant organizations within Western countries has grown. However, the humanitarian activities of these organizations have received only limited attention. Hence, it is not yet clear why these organizations engage in humanitarian crises, which specific role Islam plays in their humanitarian engagement and which factors influence the scope of their activities in humanitarian crises. This paper aims to address these research questions by using approaches from sociology of organizations and presenting three empirical case studies from Germany. Particularly, it argues that although all three case studies are active in humanitarian crises the scope of their activities differs due to their differing organizational characteristics, member interests and external expectations.