Introduction / Alessandro Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli
In praise of pragmatism / Silvio Ferrari
Burqa and Islam / Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz
Burqa, niqab and women's rights / Letizia Mancini
A besieged right: religious freedom and the Italian war on the burqa and the niqab / Alessandro Ferrari
The burqa affair in France / Anne Fornerod
Legal and social issues concerning the wearing of the burqa and other head coverings in the United Kingdom / Mark Hill
Introducing a general burqa ban in the Netherlands / Adriaan Overbeeke
The burqa affair in Spain: legal perspectives / Agustín Motilla
The Belgian 'burqa ban': legal aspects of local and general prohibitions on covering and concealing one's face in Belgium / Jogchum Vrielink, Saïla Ouald Chaib and Eva Brems
A quest for open helmets: on the Danish burqa affair / Lisbet Christoffersen
Burqa in Germany: not really an issue: a short note / Jörn Thielmann and Kathrin Vorholzer
The anti-burqa movement in Western Europe / Ralph Grillo and Prakash Shah
The burqa in Europe: European institutions and the comparative-interdisciplinary approach / Daniele Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli
The European burqa debates: past, present and future/ Maleiha Malik
The RELIGARE-Como declaration on the issue of the burqa.