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Title

Islam and European legal systems / edited by Silvio Ferrari,Anthony Bradney.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Ferrari, Silvio
• Bradney, Anthony

Description

ix, 203 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The presence of large numbers of Muslims within their borders is a relatively new phenomena for most European states. For these countries Islam is not simply yet another religion which must be accommodated but is, rather, a radically different way of seeing the world which forces liberal states to reassess their own liberalism. This book explores the varying legal reactions throughout Europe to the rise of Islam. Essays on the legal systems of the leading European jurisdictions are complemented by others on general issues arising out of the impact of Islam in Europe on traditional concepts within European legal systems. In assessing how countries do, and should, react to demands from Muslims within their borders the relationship between religion and law at the end of the second Christian millennium is brought into question. The position of Muslims within non-Muslim European states is important not only to Muslims themselves but also to all religious minorities."--Jacket.

Subject

• Law > Europe > Foreign influences
• Islam > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Silvio Ferrari -- The Sharìa̓ between particularisms and universality / Salah Eddine Ben Abid -- The new European Islam / Felice Dassetto -- The legal status of Islam in Spain / Javier Martinez-Torrón -- The legal status of Islam in Belgium / Rik Torfs -- The legal status of Islam in France / Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet -- The legal status of Islam in the Kingdom of the Netherlands / Sophie C. van Bijsterveld -- The legal status of Islam in Germany / Gerhard Robbers -- The Islamic presence in Italy : social rootedness and legal questions / Stefano Allievi and Francesco Castro -- The legal status of Islam within the United Kingdom / Anthony Bradney -- Concluding remarks / Giorgio Conetti.

ISBN

1840144661

LCCN

^^^99048782^

OCLC

• 42428847
• SCSB-10041417

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library