{"id":36130,"date":"2013-01-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/article\/the-implementation-of-shari%ca%bfa-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:52:45","slug":"the-implementation-of-shari%ca%bfa-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-implementation-of-shari%ca%bfa-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"The Implementation of Shar\u012b\u02bfa in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this chapter of <em>Applying Shar\u012b\u02bfa in the West<\/em> (ed. Maurits S. Berger, Leiden University Press, 2013), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/chercheur\/angeliki-ziaka\/?lang=en\"><strong>Angeliki Ziaka<\/strong><\/a> examines Greece&#8217;s singular arrangement, long the only European Union country to recognise the application of shar\u012b\u02bfa to its Muslim minority in Western Thrace.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She traces its historical origins, its tensions with European human-rights law and the recent evolution of the status of muftis and religious courts.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36145,"template":"","class_list":["post-36130","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"2013-01-01","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Implementation of Shar\u012b\u02bfa in Greece - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-implementation-of-shari\u02bfa-in-greece\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Implementation of Shar\u012b\u02bfa in Greece - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abstract In this chapter of Applying Shar\u012b\u02bfa in the West (ed. 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