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 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).
Foreword by the Editors
General Introduction
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
Bibliography
Index
Academic and practising lawyers, legislators and government officials, as well as researchers working on Islam and more generally on religion and state in Europe.