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This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Sweden and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Swedish 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.
List of contents
Foreword by the Editors
Abbreviations
General Introduction
1. Status of religious communities
2. State Support for Islamic Religious Communities
3. Muslims in integration laws
4. Mosques and prayer houses
5. Burial and cemeteries
6. Education and schools
7. Further and higher (tertiary) education
8. Islamic chaplaincy in public institutions
9. Employment, social laws and discrimination
10. Islamic slaughter and food regulations
11. Islamic goods and services
12. Islamic dress
13. Criminal law
14. Family law
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Mosa Sayed is Associate Professor in private international law. He has a position as senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University. He is theme leader within the multidisciplinary research programme
The Impact of religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy (Centre of Excellence).
Göran Larsson, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Religious Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has primarily published on Islam and Muslims in Europe.
