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- Title
THE AMBITIONS OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAW REFORM.
- Authors
STILT, KRISTEN; WAHEEDI, SALMA; GRIFFIN, SWATHI GANDHAVADI
- Abstract
The article analyzes Islamic legal arguments for the ambitions, possibilities and limitations of Muslim family reform law. Topics discussed are reform strategies that make up the legal arguments including exercising preference, patching, parallel contracts and stipulations and Islamic corpus, as well as the state of legal reform in restricting polygamy, limiting divorce pronouncements, raising minimum marriage age and expanding a wife's access to divorce, and impact of Muslim family law reform.
- Subjects
FAMILY law (Islamic law); MUSLIM families; LAW reform; ISLAMIC law; POLYGAMY (Islamic law); DIVORCE (Islamic law); MARRIAGE age (Islamic law); MARRIAGE (Islamic law)
- Publication
Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 2, p301
- ISSN
1558-4356
- Publication type
Article