dc.contributor.author |
Moosa, E |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-08-19T14:38:10Z |
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dc.date.available |
2012-08-19T14:38:10Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2010 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5745 |
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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.
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Amsterdam University Press |
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dc.subject |
Muslim family law; Muslim personal law; Islamic law; South Africa; ulama; South African
constitution; religion and law; Muslim minority
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dc.title |
Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies |
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dc.type |
Book section |
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pubs.begin-page |
331 |
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pubs.end-page |
354 |
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