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Sharia Law in Europe? Legacies of the Ottoman Empire and the European Convention on Human Rights (2019)
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McGoldrick, D. (2019). Sharia Law in Europe? Legacies of the Ottoman Empire and the European Convention on Human Rights. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 8(3), 517–566. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwz026

In Western Thrace in Greece, a legacy of the Ottoman Empire survives in the form of religious law (Sharia). This article examines how international human rights law has approached the compatibility of such religious laws with modern human rights inst... Read More about Sharia Law in Europe? Legacies of the Ottoman Empire and the European Convention on Human Rights.