ISBN:
9781315796369
,
9780415819770
,
9780415788007
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XVI, 196 S.
Serie:
Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series 30
Serie:
Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series
DDC:
346/.167015
Schlagwort(e):
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
;
Conflict of laws Domestic relations
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Westliche Welt
;
Islam
;
Muslim
;
Familienrecht
Kurzfassung:
"This book focuses on how various aspects of Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, in Australia and North America. Covering a wide number of countries (Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the US, Canada, Australia), it uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss a number of specific issue, including how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, mahr, polygamy, divorce, and kafalah - are adjudicated"--
Kurzfassung:
"This book focuses on Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, Australia and North America. It uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, dower, polygamy, and divorce - 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 in and out of court, and how Muslim diasporas align their Islamic worldview with a Western normative narrative"--
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Muslim family law and legal practice in the West : an introduction / Elisa GiunchiShari'a in the West : colonial consciousness in a context of normative competition / Prakash Shah -- Please divorce me! Subversive agency, resistance and gendered religious scripts / Pascale Fournier -- Judicial encounters with Islamic and Middle Eastern family law in Switzerland from a private international law perspective - marriage and divorce / Andrea Bèuchler and Amira Latif -- The recognition of transnational Muslim marriages and divorces by Norwegian courts and other competent authorities : dynamics between legislation and legal practice / Katja Jansen Fredriksen -- Islamic family law in the courts : Spain's position with regard to the Moroccan Family Code / Ana Quiänones Escâamez -- An analysis of British judicial treatment of Islamic divorces, 1997-2009 / Al-Rahim Moosa and Denise Helly -- Can there be a compromise? Australia's confusion regarding shari'a family law / Ann Black -- Islamic family law in American courts : a rich, diverse and evolving jurisprudence / Abed Awad.
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