Islamic Law, Unitary State Law, and Communal Law: Divorce and Remarriage in Egypt’s Coptic Community

Abstract Egypt’s Coptic community is currently appealing to different legal jurisdictions in the struggle over divorce and remarriage. While the Coptic Orthodox Church is claiming the right, based on Islamic law, to apply its own communal law for marriage, others are calling on the church to reinter...

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Main Author: Scott, Rachel M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Exchange
Year: 2020, Volume: 49, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 215-236
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBL Near East and North Africa
KDF Orthodox Church
NCF Sexual ethics
XA Law
Further subjects:B Divorce
B unified personal status law
B Coptic Orthodox Church
B Islamic Law
B personal status law
B 1938 bylaws
B Remarriage
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