Communal Autonomy and the Application of Islamic Law

Author(s):
Ahmed, I.
Published
2002
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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.

Europe
Date issued
2002
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Newsletter (2002), Vol. 10, no. 1, p. 32-32
hdl
1887/16772