Khul' Divorce in Egypt

Sonneveld, Nadia

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“…But in some cases reforms in divorce law have also changed the idea of the gendered power balance in negotiating marriage and divorce. Sonneveld (2010Sonneveld ( , 2012 points out that in the Egyptian case, the legislative reform transformed the idea of khul` divorce, from a transaction requiring the husband's consent to an empowering of women to take unilateral action. Khul` reform in Middle Eastern and North African countries spans a long time period, at least since the early 1990s, and takes various forms.…”

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Gender, Islam, and law

Bowen¹

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.Abstract: This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Key methodological issues include how to focus on real-world views and practices rather than only texts, disentangle the effects of patriarchal regional cultures from the effects of Islamic law, and compare the gendered effects of Islamic court practices with the most probable local alternatives. We look in greater detail at three countries-Tunisia, Indonesia, and Iran-to detect probable mechanisms shaping women's access to divorce and to property.

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confidence: 99%

Gender, Islam, and law

Bowen¹

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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“…Customary marriages are a form of marriage that is not officially registered with the state. Although there are no exact data on how widespread undocumented marriage is, a considerable amount of scholarship has focused on the diverse motivations and implications of marriages (notably lack of judicial remedy) conducted outside the state system, particularly in Egypt but also in other countries such as Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, and UAE (Bedner and Van Huis 2010;Engelcke 2019;Hasso 2010;Sonneveld 2012). It is important to mention that state legislation does not challenge the validity of a marriage contract that has not been registered by a notary.…”

Section: The Role Of Religion In Egyptian Personal Status Lawmentioning

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Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law

2023

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This open access book pays homage to Reza Banakar, who passed away in August 2020, exploring the many different areas of socio-legal research that he worked on and influenced. It begins with a summary of his career and explains how he sparked a debate on the identity and aims of legal sociology.The book is then split into five sections which look at theory, methods and interdisciplinarity, legal culture, law and sociology of law, and applied sociology of law. As well as honouring Reza Banakar's memory and unique thinking, the book aims to advance the sociology of law by demonstrating the interconnectedness of the legal and the social from a broad range of perspectives.

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“…The extent to which they have become a topic of debate and even, at times, have been turned into a moral panic, depends largely on from whom they are hidden. 'Urfi marriages that are concluded without the knowledge of parents are considered as far more problematic than those that are only to remain outside of the gaze of the state (Moors 2013;Sonneveld 2012).…”

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Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages

Akhtar¹,

Moors²,

Probert³

2018

Sociol. Islam

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This special issue focuses on Muslim religious-only marriages, which are marriages not recognized by state authorities but which at least one of the parties involved considers religiously valid. The practice of informal religious marriages has manifested in different parts of the world, and such marriages have become a topic of debate and intervention. In a tripartite dynamic, state authorities are involved in attempts to regulate or criminalize religious-only marriages, religious actors play a variety of roles, and the couples involved are left to navigate an increasingly controversial field. This special issue explores these issues in detail by investigating the interactions among state authorities, religious actors, and the couples themselves, and the motivations of each in their engagement with the others.The contributions to this special issue were, with one exception, presented at the two-day symposium Unregistered Muslim Marriages-Regulations and Contestations. This symposium was organized by Rajnaara Akhtar and Annelies Moors and held in April 2017 at the De Montfort University in Leicester, in conjunction with the University of Amsterdam.1 All of the papers are based on well-grounded empirical research. The authors employ a variety of methods, from participant observation, informal conversations, and semistructured interviews to discourse analysis of texts and images and social media use. They have worked with different interlocutors, including state actors, religious authorities of various standing and persuasions, ngos, and ordinary Muslims involved in these marriages. Research has been conducted both in Muslim-majority settings (Malaysia, Tunisia, and Jordan) as well as in countries where Muslims are a religious minority (Norway, England, and the Netherlands), in states that have developed a diverse range of policies on Muslim religious-only marriages, and with Muslim constituencies that differ both in terms of ethnic and national backgrounds and with respect to the nature of their religious commitment.

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Khul' Divorce in Egypt

Cited by 45 publications

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Gender, Islam, and law

Gender, Islam, and law

Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law

Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages

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