This volume of
Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Croatia and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Croatian 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.
Dino Mujadžević, Ph.D. (2010), Zagreb University, is A. v. Humboldt post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey at Ruhr University Bochum. His research focuses include history of the Ottoman Balkans, Socialist Yugoslavia and contemporary Islam in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the author of
Bakarić (2011).
Foreword by the Editors
General Introduction
1. Status of Religious Communities
2. Relations between the state and Islam
3. Revenue sources and management of the Islamic organisations
4. Islamic Community in Croatia
5. Mosques and prayer spaces
6. Burial and cemeteries
7. Education and schools
8. Chaplaincy in public institutions
9. Employment and social law
10. Islamic slaughter and food regulation
11. Foundations and charitable organizations
12. Islamic dress
13. Criminal law
14. Marriage
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.