This volume of
Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Bulgaria and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Bulgarian 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.
Orlin Avramov, LLM in CCL (1998), CEU; MA in Bulgarian Law (1999), Sofia University, has specialized in minority language rights including a research at Emory University. He has participated in a number of minority protection studies as IMIR consultant. Author of
We and the Others: On Minorities and Law (IMIR 2004). Co-author of
Educational Problems of Turkish Children in Bulgarian Schools (IMIR 2012).
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. Islamic Community of Bulgaria
5. Muslims in integration law and non-discrimination provisions
6. Mosques and prayer houses
7. Burial and cemeteries
8. Education and schools
9. Further and higher (tertiary) education
10. Islamic chaplaincy in public institutions
11. Employment and social law
12. Islamic slaughter and food regulation
13. Islamic goods and services
14. Islamic dress
15. Criminal law
16. Family law
Bibliography
Academic and practising lawyers, legislators and government officials, as well as researchers working on Islam and more generally on religion and state in Europe.