Morire altrove. L’intermittente riconoscimento di diritti e riti funebri ai musulmani in Italia

The need of Muslims in Italy to find comfort for their dead according to the confessional rites of Islam, in line with the feelings of pity for the deceased but in the absence of an agreement pursuant to art. 8 of the Constitution, can sometimes find a repelling barrier in Italian legislation, which abstractly does not allow other burial methods other than those common to everyone. Other times this need can intercept a territorial political aversion, which appears to oppose the plural dimension of contemporary societies. But even before the legal dimension, it is necessary to observe the “death elsewhere” under the lens of the processes of social stratification, in the different facets of the migration question and under the multiple angles of the political-party management of the diasporic presence of Muslims. This this last aspect it is mostly framed by calling into question the State and public order. The article analyses the concept of death and funeral rites in Islam, a confessional right that is often denied in cases of “death elsewhere”.