Unstructured Islam in Catalonia: A Problematic Anchoring
Originally published as El Islam invertebrado en Cataluña: un anclaje problemático in the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (no. 51, 2019), this article by José Luis Llaquet de Entrambasaguas, tenured professor of State Ecclesiastical Law at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, this article examines the internal organisation of Islam in Catalonia, the fragmentation of its associative fabric and the difficulty of establishing a representative interlocutor before the Catalan administration.
Paru sous le titre El Islam invertebrado en Cataluña: un anclaje problemático dans la Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (nº 51, 2019), cet article de José Luis Llaquet de Entrambasaguas, professeur titulaire de droit ecclésiastique de l’État à l’Université Loyola Andalousie, cet article examine l’organisation interne de l’islam en Catalogne, la fragmentation de son tissu associatif et la difficulté d’un interlocuteur représentatif face à l’administration catalane.
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El Islam invertebrado en Cataluña: un anclaje problemático (Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado, nº 51, 2019)
وهو للباحث خوسيه لويس لاكيت دي إنترامباساغواس، أستاذ القانون الكنسي للدولة في جامعة لويولا الأندلس. يتناول هذا المقال التنظيم الداخلي للإسلام في كاتالونيا، وتشظّي نسيجه الجمعوي، وصعوبة إيجاد ممثّل جامع أمام الإدارة الكاتالونية.
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