Judicial Divorce At the Wife's Initiative: the SharīcFa Courts of Egypt, 1920-1955

Abstract Islamic law defines divorce as a unilateral act of a husband. In Egypt, modernist statutory legislation (1920 and 1929) improved the legal status of women by granting them four grounds for judicial divorce based on Mālikī doctrine: a husband's defects and diseases; his nonprovision of...

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Main Author: Shaham, Ron (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 1994
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 1994, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-257
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