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