Book: Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Belgium

This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Belgium and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims.

The book compiled and Annotated by Yaiza Janssens, Ghent University.

The legal texts are published in the original French and Dutch languages while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals’ access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.

Yaiza Janssens, MA in Law (2010), Ghent University, MA in International Relations and Diplomacy (2011), University of Antwerp, is a Ph.D. candidate at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. Her academic interests focus on the relationship between law and gender.

Table of contents

1. Status of religious communities
2. Relations between the state and Islam
3. State support for Islamic religious communities
4. Muslims in integration law
5. Mosques and prayer houses
6. Burial and cemeteries
7. Education and schools
8. Further and higher (tertiary) education
9. Islamic chaplaincy in public institutions
10. Employment and social law
11. Islamic slaughter and food regulation
12. Islamic dress
13. Criminal law
14. Family law

Bibliographic Information

Title: Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Belgium

Author: Yaiza Janssens

Publisher: BRILL; Ant Mul edition

 Language: English, Dutch and French

Length: 180 pages

ISBN:9789004306318

To be Published on: October 2015