Title: Communal Autonomy and the Application of Islamic Law
Abstract: Islamic organizations, claiming to represent the interests of the 8 to 9 million-strong Muslim immigrant communities in Western Europe, have been asserting a human rights claim to communal autonomy to apply Islamic law, the sharica, to their family or personal matters. Always included among the latter are marriage, divorce and inheritance.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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