Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

O. N. Had∆iƒ, Islam and culture[in Croatian], Zagreb 1894. A. Hangi, Life and customs of the Muslims[in Bosnian], Sarajevo 1906, ...

rights as rarely as before. Statistics on petitions show that the majority of cases are concerned with rape. Major obstacles to ...

which have been legally prohibited in both the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, have almost never been instigated in the courts. ...

women from litigating for their rights, particularly within the confines of family law. Contemporary Iranian laws are explicit i ...

the empire with the establishment of a more uni- form and extensive network of Islamic courts. £anafìjudges, trained in the madr ...

used the courts to protect property rights. The reg- istration of a property sale, a loan, or the establish- ment of a waqf prov ...

through its distinction between mahr, maintenance, and fair provision supported that (Pearl and W. Menski 1998, 222). pakistan P ...

In the majority of the countries, however, matters pertaining to the major faiths and cultures of citi- zens are formally regula ...

even when their physical custody is vested in some- one else, a mother who has custody may find it dif- ficult to deal with issu ...

nance. Many judges do not think domestic violence a legitimate ground to abrogate from the rules on nusyuz behavior. In the case ...

to assert socioeconomic justice as a reciprocal and valid prerequisite for the enactment of the Sharì≠a penal and justice system ...

S. F. Hirsch, Pronouncing and preserving. Gender and discourses in an African Islamic court, Chicago 1998. M. H. Kamali, Appella ...

their lack of validity under the Turkish legal system. For example, only 54 percent of women in civil marriages indicated that, ...

protection against possible discrimination in the workplace on the basis of wearing the ™ijàb. Individual states have been force ...

stereotypical manner, often as passive victims in cases such as forced marriage. State systems often require litigants to posses ...

Arab States Patricia Crone’s Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law: The Origins of the Islamic Patronate(1987) set the cue for focu ...

gave her the most freedom. The present-day Tuni- sian Code of Personal Status, for example, ex- plicitly allows courts to apply ...

countries began reconciling the demands of inter- national law, classical mainstream Islamic legal opinions, and local customs. ...

Al-¢abarì, Tar±ìkh al-rusùl wa-al-mulùk, Cairo 1960–77, Year 22. J. E. Tucker, In the house of the law. Gender and Islamic law i ...

Caucasian women were prohibited from taking part in ≠àda or Sharì≠a legal proceedings, though there were other forms of action o ...