Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States
| Titel: | Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States : A Comparative Overview of Textual Development and Advocacy |
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| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press, 2007 |
| Umfang: | 1 electronic resource (256 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9789053569740 |
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- Preface
- p. 9
- 1
- Introduction
- p. 11
- 2
- Codification of Muslim Personal Status Law in Arab States: principle and processes
- p. 19
- Current debates: Bahrain and Iraq
- p. 22
- Legislation, judicial discretion and political process
- p. 26
- 3
- Arab State Codifications and Women's Rights Advocacy in the Third Phase of Family Law Reform
- p. 33
- International law and Muslim family law
- p. 34
- Women's rights advocacy
- p. 37
- Recent legislative developments
- p. 40
- 4
- Shar'i Postulates, Statutory Law and the Judiciary
- p. 45
- Tunisia and the shar'i postulate
- p. 46
- Judicial interpretation and legislative direction
- p. 48
- 5
- Registration Requirements
- p. 53
- Unregistered and 'urfi marriage
- p. 56
- Overview
- p. 59
- 6
- Capacity and Consent
- p. 61
- Minimum age of marriage
- p. 62
- The Jordanian debate on raising the minimum age of capacity for marriage
- p. 65
- Guardianship in marriage
- p. 68
- The role of the guardian
- p. 72
- Overview
- p. 75
- 7
- Polygyny
- p. 77
- Constraints on polygyny in contemporary legislation
- p. 78
- Lawful benefit and financial capacity
- p. 79
- Notification requirements and consent of the wife
- p. 81
- Divorce options and validity issues
- p. 83
- Overview
- p. 86
- 8
- The Marical Relationship
- p. 89
- Dower
- p. 90
- Maintenance and obedience
- p. 93
- Special stipulations in the marriage contract
- p. 99
- Misyar marriage
- p. 102
- Overview
- p. 105
- 9
- Divorce
- p. 107
- Statutory approaches to unilateral talaq and judicial divorce
- p. 107
- Judicial khul' in Egypt
- p. 112
- Judicial khul' in Jordan
- p. 116
- Other approaches to judicial khul'
- p. 119
- Divorce as a judicial process
- p. 122
- Compensation
- p. 125
- Post-divorce rights to the marital home
- p. 130
- Overview
- p. 131
- 10
- Parents and Children
- p. 133
- Period of custody
- p. 134
- Allocation of custody
- p. 137
- Paternity and adoption
- p. 142
- Overview
- p. 149
- 11
- Concluding Comment
- p. 151
- List of Statutes Cited
- p. 157
- Selected Statutory Provisions
- p. 161
- 1
- Marriage Guardianship and Capacity
- p. 161
- 2
- Polygyny
- p. 167
- 3
- The Marital Relationship
- p. 170
- 4
- Stipulations
- p. 180
- 5
- Judicial Khul' and comparable divorce provisions
- p. 184
- 6
- Compensation for injurious/arbitrary divorce
- p. 187
- Notes
- p. 191
- Glossary of Arabic Terms
- p. 229
- Bibliography
- p. 233
- Index
- p. 243
