By: John Mansfield “At the Karamah program a year ago, I gave a talk with the same title–“Marriage in Pakistan – Divorce in Maryland”- about the case – Aleem v. Aleem – just then handed down by Maryland’s highest court, the Maryland Court of Appeals. I hope to approach this same case with more information and new insights into […]
Marriage in Pakistan – Divorce in Maryland – A Sequel (2009) اقرأ المزيد »
By: John Mansfield “Aleem v. Aleem is a recent case from Maryland’s highest court, the Maryland Court of Appeals. Husband and wife were married in Pakistan in a ceremony that complied with the Pakistan Muslim Family Laws Ordinance. After three days, the marriage was registered. At the time of the marriage the husband was twenty-nine
Marriage in Pakistan – Divorce in Maryland (2008) اقرأ المزيد »
“This paper is a collection of detailed comments on the proposed CEDAW General Recommendation on the Economic Consequences of Marriage and its Dissolution (The Concept Note) currently being circulated by the CEDAW Committee at the United Nations. KARAMAH hopes that its comments will facilitate a thorough critique by Muslim delegations of The Concept Note which is
By: Azizah al-Hibri, Esq. “To understand the fullness of the Islamic position on family planning, we need to look more carefully at the total picture. Its departure point, of course, is to encourage the life principle. Hence, the Prophet’s exhortation to multiply and the Qur’anic prohibition of infanticide, a wide-spread pre-Islamic practice involving born children which was
Family Planning and Islamic Jurisprudence اقرأ المزيد »
By: Azizah al-Hibri, Esq. The nature of the Islamic marriage contract (kitab) has been largely misunderstood by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. On the Muslim side, the problem has been one of over-secularization of the law of contract, a trend that led to a trivialization of the marriage contract, and hence of the commitment of some
The Nature Of The Islamic Marriage اقرأ المزيد »
By: Asma Lamrabet “The question of women in Islam has long been seen from within the framework of one of two extreme viewpoints: the one bound by a strict conservative Islamic approach, the other by ethnocentric and Islamophobic Western conceptions. These two perceptions are, of course, in conflict, but they both end up at the
By: Nevine Abdullah “In some Muslim societies, this question is still being asked, although in other Muslim countries, women have made great strides and contributions in the areas of law and the judiciary. It is now the twenty first century and it is time to settle this question once and for all and empower Muslim
The Right of Muslim Women to Become Judges اقرأ المزيد »
By: Azizah al-Hibri, Esq. “In this age of information technology that shrank our world into a global village, it is fair to ask how this recent development has impacted Muslim women’s rights across the world. Having just traveled through nine Muslim countries, ranging from Pakistan and Bangladesh to the Gulf States, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon,
Muslim Women’s Rights in the Global Village: Challenges and Opportunities اقرأ المزيد »
“The zina and rape laws of Pakistan are the subject of heated debate both inside and outside the Muslim world. Opponents of the Shari’a law have found in the subject an ideal opportunity to attack Islamic law as patriarchal and unjust to women. Some have even argued that Shari’a law, in its entirety, should be abolished. On the other hand, many
Zina, Rape, and Islamic Law: An Islamic Legal Analysis of the Rape Laws in Pakistan اقرأ المزيد »
By: Asma Afsaruddin “The study of gender as an academic discipline is a fairly recent development in the humanities and social sciences. Pioneering works that have focused on gender have considerably affected academic discourse on how we interpret the paradigms of social, economic, and ultimately power relations between men and women, in both modern and
Hermeneutics of Gendered Space and Discourse اقرأ المزيد »
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