Muslim Family in Northern Mozambique: Sharīʿa, Matriliny and the Official Legislation in Paquitequete

Abstract Although Islam has a long history in coastal northern Mozambique, the question of how Muslims manage family life there is little understood. Based on the analysis of historical, ethnographic and legal records, and a case study of a bairro (Port., ward) called Paquitequete in the contemporar...

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Main Author: Bonate, Liazzat J. K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Islamic Africa
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 184-207
Further subjects:B Community Courts
B Cabo Delgado
B Mozambique
B matriliny
B Islamic Law
B Family
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