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Muslim Family Law in Western Courts

Muslim Family Law in Western Courts

Hardcover

Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World

General LawGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415819776
ISBN13: 9780415819770
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 17 2014
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
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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