Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies

dc.contributor.author	Moosa, Ebrahim E.I.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-19T14:38:10Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-19T14:38:10Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	“Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies,” in Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges (eds.) Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts, (Amsterdam University Press, 2010): 331-354	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5745
dc.description.abstract	The recognition of Muslim family law in South Africa is embedded in a long history of political struggle by the country's Muslim minority. With constitutional recognition for religion-based family and human rights safeguards, the proposed Muslim family law bill has landed in a quagmire of intra-Muslim disputes. The stand-off is between orthodox and ultra-orthodox Muslim clerics, the latter who find a human rights-friendly regime of Muslim family law to be antithetical to their view of religion, while orthodox and progressive Muslim groups find such accommodation to be acceptable to their religious convictions.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Amsterdam University Press	en_US
dc.subject	Muslim family law; Muslim personal law; Islamic law; South Africa; ulama; South African constitution; religion and law; Muslim minority	en_US
dc.title	Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US
duke.description.endpage	354	en_US
duke.description.startpage	331	en_US