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Over the last decade in Germany and France, one Islamic organization has emerged as potentially the most dominant in each country — respectively, the Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (Diyanet İsleri Türk İslam Birliği, DITIB) and the Association of Muslims in France (Rassemblement des musulmans de France, RMF). I argue in this chapter that the success of these two organizations has not solely been due to the political and institutional opportunity structures in the countries in which they find themselves, but in large part thanks to the support that they receive from their states of origin, Turkey and Morocco.2
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Bruce, B. (2013). Not Quite In, Not Quite Out: Islamic Organizations in France and Germany and Their Ties to Their States of Origin. In: Kortmann, M., Rosenow-Williams, K. (eds) Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305589_8
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