It is often said that marriage in Islamic law is a civil contract, not a sacrament. If this is so, this
means that the marriage contract is largely governed by the same rules as other contracts …

In this chapter, I shall remove some of the confusion and misunderstanding about the Islamic
marriage contract by taking the reader with me on a brief tour of the fundamentals of Islamic …

Unlike the situation under the Roman Empire and in pre-Islamic Arabia, the relationship of
marriage in Egypt was always essentially a contractual relationship based on the free will …

Marriage under classical Islamic law has been adequately discussed by a number of writers,
but little has been written on the modernist viewpoints. To Westerners—businessmen in …

The advances women have made in Malaysia and the recognition of women's right to public
life led to a remarkable program of codification of a uniform Islamic Family Law in the early …

At her request, a young woman named Arwā appeared before a group of men and declared
that she had reached her legal majority. The resulting document, prepared by one of the …

In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly
debated topic. In the Muslim World, the discussions at the heart of these debates are often …

This chapter begins by reviewing two earlier historiographies of Islamic family law to
illustrate the breadth and depth of the field. It then proceeds to examine the literature in three …

This paper examines the Islamic legal doctrine of mahr-an inherent component to the
marriage contract. In the first part the principal aspects of the marriage contract are analyzed …

Progressive Muslims have a difficult relationship with Islamic law. Many progressive Muslims
have undertaken alternative close readings of the Qur'an, or have delved deeply into ethical …