Despite the rich tradition of worldly and religious music in Muslim cultures and throughout
Islamic history music and also women's voices have been often condemned as devil's work.
Nevertheless young Muslims use music as a medium to express themselves whilst producing their
own lines of thought developing individual (religious) legitimations. In this volume we seek to
offer glimpses into the variety of regional phenomena of Music by young Muslims from different
countries. The contributions are a result from a Conference held in fall 2018 in Germany which
caught the attention of the national media with a huge interest in music and identity formation
of young Muslims particularly living in the West.
