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Muslim Family Law in Western Courts

Muslim Family Law in Western Courts

Paperback

Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World

General LawGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415788005
ISBN13: 9780415788007
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 14 2016
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses on how Islamic family law is interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, in Australia and North America. Covering a wide number of countries, it uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss a number of issues, including how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, mahr, polygamy, divorce, and kafalah - are adjudicated. The solutions proposed by different legal systems are reviewed, and some broader questions are addressed: how Islamic principles are harmonized with norms based on gender equality, how parties bargain strategically, and how Muslim diasporas align their Islamic worldview with a Western normative narrative.

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