Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

maintenance of separate normative orders is not envisaged under the law. The second type of cultural defense strategy argues tha ...

argued that the touching of a child’s genitalia is not considered sexual in Albania, he and his wife per- manently lost the cust ...

Afghanistan Customary law in Afghanistan needs to be understood in the context of the semi-autonomous segregated societies that ...

among the women since an unpopular decision would reduce the authority of the leader. The lead- er’s control gives those whose c ...

strongly in Northeastern Caucasus (Daghestan, Azerbaijan). Criminal cases were usually tried ac- cording to the ≠àda standards, ...

Samarkand (IFL 2000). The majority of Muslims in Central Asia belonged to the Sunnì£anafìsect, the most liberal of the four Sunn ...

M. Tokhtakhodjaeva, Women in Central Asian society, in Women Against Fundamentalisms 4 (1992/3), 29– 31, <http://waf.gn.apc.o ...

tem. The birth of girls is celebrated rather than mourned as is reported elsewhere. Women’s impor- tant, though informal, partic ...

adatlaw, distribution of the estate can commence even while the parents are still alive. Whenever the children are in need of re ...

parental system of inheritance is favored (Hadi- kusuma 1991, 109). In contrast to the patrilineal and matrilineal systems, whic ...

Mashriq Beduins People of the rural Mashriq, who identify them- selves as badù(nomadic) or ™a∂arì(settled), by tribal or family ...

public reputation, a shaykh. He cannot refuse her appeal, and makes her whereabouts known to the husband and her family so that ...

Steppes d’Arabie. Etats, pasteurs, agriculteurs et com- mercants, Paris 1993, 195–222. A. Musil, Arabia Deserta, New York 1927. ...

proached the relationship between Islamic and cus- tomary law differently in separate areas. In some places, Islamic and customa ...

articulate principles of family law, Islamic, custom- ary, and Christian, in the Marriage Act of 1971. The act set the minimum a ...

The young republic’s project of creating a state based on the rule of law was an important develop- ment with respect to women. ...

adultery is not even considered to be a crime under Turkish law (Ilkkaracan and WWHR 1998). The experience of Turkey shows that ...

East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific The conditions and situations of prisons and prisoners in the region are d ...

babies to stay with their mothers in prison. Alter- natively, prisoner mothers may be granted early or temporary release. If thi ...

meet in Europe and later marry. But at the airport on her way home, her spanking new Samsonite suitcase – a gift from Eddy – was ...