Book: Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Italy

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

The book compiled and Annotated by Stella Coglievina, University of Insubria.

The legal texts are published in the original Italian language 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.

Stella Coglievina, Ph.D. (2009, Catholic University of Milan), is research fellow at University of Insubria (Como-Varese, Italy), where she teaches ecclesiastical law. She has published articles on law and religion, including the report on Italy in the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Brill, 2009-2015), and a monograph on religious discrimination (Diritto antidiscriminatorio e religione, Libellula, 2013).

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 goods and services
   13. Islamic dress
   14. Criminal law
   15. Family law

   Bibliographic Information

   Title: Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Italy

   Author: Stella Coglievina

   Publisher: BRILL; Ant Mul edition

    Language: English and Italian

   Length: 154 pages

   ISBN:9789004312357

   Pub.Date: March 2016