Islam, Europe and emerging legal issues
By: [edited by] W. Cole Durham ... [et al.].
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409434443; 9781409434450
Subjects: Law and legislation; European Court of Human Rights; Muslims; Hijab (Islamic clothing); Customs and practices; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Islam, the European Court of Human rights and democracy in Europe: overview. Islam in Strasbourg: can politics substitute for law? / Javier Martínez-Torrón; title: The European court, Islam and competing modes of secularism. The European Court of Human Rights: between fundamentalist and liberal secularism / Ingvill Plesner; title: The Islamic headscarf: reflections and general propositions. Wearing the hijab: some reflections from a Muslim woman's perspective / Amal Idrissi; title: International human rights law and the Islamic headscarf: a short note on the positions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee / Martin Scheinin; title: European approaches to the islamic headscarf controversy. The hijab in Strasbourg: clear conclusions, unclear reasoning / Njål Høstmælingen; title: Religious symbols in public schools: the Islamic headscarf and the European Court of Human Rights decision in Şahin v. Turkey / T. Jeremy Gunn; title: The Strasbourg court dealing with Turkey and the human right to freedom of religion or belief: an assessment in light of Leyla Şahin v. Turkey / Tore Lindholm; title: The religious headscarf (hijab) and access to employment under Norwegian antidiscrimination laws / Ronald Craig; title: The headscarf issue: a German perspective / Richard Puza; title: The european court and the limits of pluralism: the welfare party case. The dubious foundations of the Refah decision / Ann Elizabeth Mayer; title: Refah revisited: Strasbourg's construction of Islam / Christian Moe; title: The principle of legal pluralism and militant democracy / Javid Gadirov; title: The European Court's freedom of association cases and the implications for islam / Lance Lehnhof.