Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Guardianship: authority and responsibility The revelation permitting physical disciplining of wives is one of the justifications ...

such a woman was even more in need of the pro- tection of a guardian, since she was most vulnera- ble to deception and exploitat ...

“what leads to the prohibited is itself prohibited” and “blocking the means” were invoked, some- times to a logical extreme, to ...

tations, comprised part of the family law that was applied by Muslim jurists. Islamic law was adamant that the mahrwas the sole ...

1993, 13). Common stipulations included the right of the wife to divorce her husband if he took another wife or a concubine, her ...

every issue related to family law. In addition to the diversity of opinion evident in law books, the incorporation of custom int ...

Afghanistan As a Muslim nation, Afghans consider the Sharì≠a, and specifically £anafìfiqh, as the basis of their laws. However, ...

With the outbreak of war against the Soviet inva- sion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, state institutions, including the judiciary, ...

that brought into existence mixed courts applying European codes in the area of civil and commercial law and extending their jur ...

ever, that the doctrines of particular schools remain dominant in certain regions as the historic origin from which departure to ...

language of a reformed interpretation of Islam. The last participants in the debate are the secular nationalists controlling the ...

J. J. Nasir, The Islamic law of personal status, The Hague 2002. J. Schacht, An introduction to Islamic law, New York 1982. A. I ...

within Coptic law, which recognized marriage as a holy sacrament sanctified by God rather than as a contract between two people, ...

opposition groups who objected to the authoritar- ian way the reforms had been enacted. Jihan’s Law was struck down on procedura ...

and south without the right to follow their own legal school. The present Family Code (Law no. 20 of 1992 concerning Personal St ...

According to the Ja≠farìs, in the event of divorce, the mother loses her children once boys reach age seven and girls age nine. ...

The progressive direction of change in favor of women’s rights within the family came to a halt with the 1979 Revolution that en ...

Bibliography H. Afshar, Islam and feminisms. An Iranian case study, New York 1998. S. Haeri, Divorce in contemporary Iran. A mal ...

7 October 1937, the Sharì≠a laws became applica- ble to all Muslims “notwithstanding any custom or usage to the contrary, in all ...

tive poet politician Iqbal’s criticism of the rigidity that had crept into Islamic legal structures after ijti- hàdhad been elim ...