every issue related to family law. In addition to the
diversity of opinion evident in law books, the
incorporation of custom into the law meant that
Islamic family law often yielded divergent, even
contradictory, results in its actual application
across the Muslim world. At the same time, the law
retained an overall coherence due to the retention
of a number of core regulations and underlying
premises, some of which have been discussed here.
With the coming of colonialism, new world-views
and customs challenged many of these premises
upon which Islamic family law was built.
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