Overview
This book focuses on how Islamic family law is interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, in Australia and North America. Covering a wide number of countries, it uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss a number of issues, including how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, mahr, polygamy, divorce, and kafalah - 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, and how Muslim diasporas align their Islamic worldview with a Western normative narrative.
- | Author: Elisa Giunchi
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 17, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 212 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0415819776
- | ISBN-13: 9780415819770
