The Exclusion of Women from Property in Jordan
Only one fourth of Jordanian women entitled to property inheritance receive it fully. The main reason is that land and property are not formally registered. But this is also due to several strategies to exclude women from inheritance. Social pressure is translated into the “exclusion” (takhāruj) of...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Hawwa
Year: 2017, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 107-128 |
Further subjects: | B
Inheritance
Shari‘a
land registration
women’s economic rights
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |