Women's rights and Islamic family law : perspectives on reform / edited by Lynn Welchman.
Material type: TextPublication details: London, UK ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Description: 300 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1842770942 (cased)
- 1842770950 (limp)
- 9781842770948 (cased)
- 9781842770955 (limp)
- 340.59 21 W447w
- KBP540.3 .I855 2004
- BP173.4 .W78 2004
- 86.14
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-291) and index.
Part I. Muslim personal status law in Egypt: the current situation and possibilities of reform through internal initiatives / Essam Fawzy. Social context. Personal status law in Egypt: an historical overview. Understanding the law: Egyptian family and social attitudes (results of the field study). Law no. 1 of 2000: a new personal status law and a step on the path to reform. General conclusions -- Part II. Islamic law and the transition to Palestinian statehood: constraints and opportunities for legal reform / edited by Penny Johnson and Lynn Welchman. Legal context: shariʻa courts and Muslim family law in the transitional period / Lynn Welchman. Palestinian interim governance: state legitimation, legal reform, and the shariʻa / Penny Johnson. Attitudes towards legal reform of personal status law in Palestine / Rema Hammami. Agents for reform: the women's movement, social politics, and family law reform / Penny Johnson. Appendix: case history / Fadwa al-Labadi -- Part III. No altars: a survey of Islamic family law in the United States / Asifa Quraishi and Najeeba Syeed-Miller. Islamic family law in American Muslim hands. The Muslim family in the USA: law in practice. Islamic family law in US courts. Future trends and predictions. Conclusion. Appendix: table of cases. Part IV. Domestic violence and shariʻa: a comparative study of Muslim societies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia / Lisa Hajjar. Domestic violence and shariʻa.
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