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The Nordic country of Iceland has one of the smallest Muslim communities in the world, of only 875 people registered with the official Muslim organisations in the country (as of 2015). This corresponds to 0.27% of the population of Iceland. ==History== The earliest mention of Iceland in Muslim sources originates in the works of Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099–1165/66) in his famous ''Tabula Rogeriana'', which mentions Iceland's location in the North Sea. The long-distance trading and raiding networks of the Vikings will have meant that various Icelanders, like the Norwegians Rögnvald Kali Kolsson or Harald Hardrada, came into direct contact with the Muslim world during the Middle Ages;〔Neil Price, 'The Vikings in Spain, North Africa and the Mediterranean', in ''The Viking World'', ed. by Stefan Brink and Neil Price (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), pp. 462--69.〕 indirect connections are best attested by finds of Arabic coins in Iceland, as also widely in the Viking world.〔E.g. the hoard found at the farm Keta in Skefilsstaðhreppur: Fedir Androshchuk and Ragnheiður Traustadóttir, 'A Viking Age Spearhead from Kolkuós', Hólarannsóknin Framvinduskýrsla 6 (2004), https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Viking_Age_Spearheads.〕 Following Iceland's conversion to Christianity around 1000, some Icelanders encountered the Islamic world through pilgrimage, for example to Jerusalem, of the kind described by Abbot Nikulás Bergsson in his ''Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan''. From around the late thirteenth century, a fantastical version of the Islamic world is prominent in medieval Icelandic romance, partly inspired by Continental narratives influenced by the Crusades. Although this image generally characterises the Islamic world as 'heathen', and repeats the misconceptions of Islam widespread in the medieval West,〔Martin, John Stanley, 'Attitudes to Islam from the ''Chansons de geste'' to the ''Riddarasögur'' Perhaps the earliest known example of Muslims coming to Iceland occurred in 1627, when the Dutch Muslim Jan Janszoon and his Barbary pirates raided portions of Iceland, including the southwest coast, Vestmannaeyjar, and the eastern fjords. This event is known in Icelandic history as the ''Tyrkjaránið'' (the "Turkish Abductions"). Islam started to gain presence in Icelandic culture around the 1970s, partly through immigration from the Islamic world (for example Salmann Tamimi) and partly through Icelanders' exposure to Islamic culture while travelling (for example Ibrahim Sverrir Agnarsson). Some of the immigrants simply came of their own accord; others came as refugees, including groups from Kosovo.〔Heimir Björnsson, 'Hvaða átt til Mekka? Stofnun trúfélags múslima á Íslandi, þróun þess og starf á Íslandi og barátta gegn fordómum' (unpublished BA thesis, University of Iceland), pp. 8-9. http://skemman.is/item/view/1946/2283; (International Religious Freedom Report 2006 )〕 The Koran was first translated into Icelandic in 1993, with a corrected edition in 2003.〔''Kóran'', trans. by Helgi Hálfdánarson, second edn, Reykjvík, 2003.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islam in Iceland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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