FILIATION AND ADOPTION AMONG MUSLIMS IN INDIA: THE QUAGMIRES OF A RELIGIOUS MINORITY LAW
Filiation among Muslims in India is governed by Muslim personal law, a largely uncodified corpus of key Islamic legal treatises that has subsequently been interpreted and applied through the Common Law frame of British colonial courts and the post-Independence Indian judicial system by virtue of the...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 336-355 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Religious minority
/ Islamic law
/ Abstammungsrecht
/ Adoption
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBM Asia XA Law |
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Evidence Act
B Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act B Customary law B Muslim personal law B Legal pluralism B Constitution of India B fāsid marriage B Adoption |
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