Old and New Islam in Greece

The legal and political habitus of Greece's Muslim population is discussed in a fascinating interdisciplinary historical overview of both indigenous minority and immigrant communities providing insights into the evolution and current state of minority and migration law. The book also speaks in a piercing fashion to the scholarly debate on communitarianism and liberalism, as Greece’s sui generis legal tradition and embrace of community rights often runs contrary to the country’s own liberal legal order and international human rights standards. How notions of ethnicity and citizenship have been challenged by recent Muslim immigration is further explored. The reader is therefore treated to a comprehensive analysis of minority rights pertaining to 'Old' and 'New' Islam in Greece within the European context.

Konstantinos Tsitselikis PhD (1995) in International Law and Minority Rights, is Associate professor at the University of Macedonia (Greece). Author of books, studies and articles on human rights, focused on minority and migrants rights, including “Minority mobilization in Greece and litigation in Strasbourg”, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 15/2008, 27-48 and A Tale of Reciprocity: Minority foundations in Greece and Turkey, 2010, TESEV/ΚΕΜΟ, Istanbul/Athens [with D.Kurban].