Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

the beginning of the 19th century [in Russian], Halchik 1992. H. M. Khashaev, Sharì≠a and ≠àda in Daghestan[in Russian], Moscow ...

mulated by women in women’s journals such as Zanàn. Women trained in Islamic jurisprudence have challenged some traditional inte ...

by a husband desiring polygamy, including the per- mission of his existing wife or wives, and requires approval from the Islamic ...

trary unilateral repudiations (†alàq) by requiring husbands to apply to the court for permission to pronounce the †alàqin court. ...

mirror of Indonesia’s political, cultural, and legal sys- tems, in American Journal of Comparative Law 23 (1975), 653. D. S. Lev ...

stricted to family law, which was sometimes modi- fied to improve women’s rights. In 1930s Sudan, where the British supported th ...

followed Islamic legal norms, the argument goes, brides would have full control of the mahariand be in a better financial positi ...

Overview Women in Islamic cultures, in common with women in other cultures, are likely to be subject to distinctly gendered crim ...

duress” (zinàbi-al-jabr) under the new statutes. While the use of force will exonerate the rape victim from the charge of and pe ...

defence of severe provocation may reduce the sen- tence to a third with further substantial reductions if, as is reported to be ...

N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Femicide and the Palestinian criminal justice system. Seeds of change in the context of state building, i ...

limb was worth its equivalent but a woman’s life was worth half that of a man’s. Her reproductive value was taken into considera ...

hospital worker filed a sexual harassment com- plaint in 2002, and a hospital disciplinary board swiftly convened against her. P ...

and women’s constitutional rights provides a legal basis for reform. Bibliography L. Abu Odeh, Feminism, nationalism, and the la ...

Suppression of Violence Against Women and Children Act of 2000, and also punishable under the Special Powers Act of 1974 (As Ame ...

the basis of this code, violence against women is encouraged, women’s right to life is denigrated, a woman’s testimony in court ...

structure. Islamization of the criminal law has shown clearly that there are differences of opinion concerning the interpretatio ...

of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979; the Offence of Qazf (Enforcement of Hadd) Ordinance, VIII, 1979; and the Prohib ...

Another exception to the decriminalization of abor- tion based on protecting family honor is in “Felonies against the Integrity ...

Overview Definition The cultural defense is a legal strategy used some- times in criminal cases in United States courts to excus ...