Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Welchman, Lynn.

Title Women and Muslim family laws in Arab states : a comparative overview of textual development and advocacy / Lynn Welchman.

Publication Info. [Amsterdam?] : Amsterdam University Press, [2007]
©2007

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 All Libraries - Shared Downloadable Materials  JSTOR Open Access Ebook    Downloadable
All patrons click here to access this title from JSTOR
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet  WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK JSTOR    Downloadable
Please click here to access this JSTOR resource
Description 1 online resource (254 pages).
Series ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies
ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Contents I. Introduction -- II. Codification of Muslim Personal Status Law in Arab States: principle and processes. Current debates: Bahrain and Iraq -- Legislation, judicial discretion and political process -- III. Arab State Codifications and Women's Rights Advocacy in the Third Phase of Family Law Reform. International law and Muslim family law -- Women's rights advocacy -- Recent legislative developments -- IV. Shar'i Postulates, Statutory Law and the Judiciary. Tunisia and the shar'i postulate -- Judicial interpretation and legislative direction -- V. Registration Requirements. Unregistered and 'urfi marriage -- Overview -- VI. Capacity and Consent. Minimum age of marriage -- The Jordanian debate on raising the minimum age of capacity for marriage -- Guardianship in marriage -- The role of the guardian -- Overview -- VII. Polygyny. Constraints on polygyny in contemporary legislation -- Lawful benefit and financial capacity -- Notification requirements and consent of the wife -- Divorce options and validity issues -- Overview -- VIII. The Marital Relationship. Dower -- Maintenance and obedience -- Special stipulations in the marriage contract -- Misyar marriage -- Overview -- IX. Divorce. Statutory approaches to unilateral talaq and judicial divorce -- Judicial khul' in Egypt -- Judicial khul' in Jordan -- Other approaches to judicial khul' -- Divorce as a judicial process -- Compensation -- Post-divorce rights to the marital home -- Overview -- X. Parents and Children. Period of custody -- Allocation of custody -- Paternity and adoption -- Overview -- XI. Concluding Comment -- List of Statutes Cited -- Selected Statutory Provisions. Marriage Guardianship and Capacity -- Polygyny -- The Marital Relationship -- Stipulations -- Judicial Khul' and comparable divorce provisions -- Compensation for injurious/arbitrary divorce.
Summary A number of Arab states have recently either codified Muslim family law for the first time, or have issued amendments or new laws which significantly impact the statutory rights of women as wives, mothers and daughters. In Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States Lynn Welchman examines women's rights in Muslim family laws in Arab states across the Middle East while also surveying the public debates surrounding the issues. The author considers these new laws alongside older statutes to comment on the patterns and dynamics of change both in the texts of the laws, and in the processes through by which they are drafted and issued. She draws on original legal texts and explanatory statements as well as on extensive secondary literature particular to certain states for an insight into practice, and on; interventions by women's rights organizations and other parties to the debate in the press and in advocacy materials. The discussions are set in the contemporary global context that 'internationalises' the domestic and regional debates. The book considers laws in states from the Gulf to North Africa in regard to their approaches to issues of codification processes and issues of and of registration, capacity and guardianship in marriage, polygyny, the marital relationship, divorce and child custody. -- Publisher description.
Note Print version record.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Language English.
Subject Women (Islamic law) -- Arab countries.
Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Arab countries.
Muslim women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Arab countries.
Islamic law.
Domestic relations -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Islamic countries.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Law.
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Islam.
Law.
LAW -- General.
Domestic relations. (OCoLC)fst00896646
Domestic relations (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst00896681
Islamic law. (OCoLC)fst00979949
Muslim women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01031010
Women (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst01735659
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01176824
Arab countries. (OCoLC)fst01240128
Islamic countries. (OCoLC)fst01244130
Personenrecht.
Familierecht.
Vrouwen.
Islamitische wereld.
Islam.
Familienrecht.
Arabische Staaten.
Frau.
Indexed Term Law
Women
Muslim family law
Gender
Islam
Arab States
Added Title Muslim family laws in Arab states
Other Form: Print version: Welchman, Lynn. Women and Muslim family laws in Arab states. [Amsterdam?] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007 9789053569740 905356974X (OCoLC)144661757
ISBN 9789048501717 (electronic bk.)
9048501717 (electronic bk.)
9789053569740
905356974X
-->
Add a Review