Women and Malaysian Islamic Family Law: exploring the gender sensitive path of jurisprudential reform
Modern Islamic family laws in the form of statutory codified fiqh, dated back to Ottoman Law of Family Rights 1917, supposedly was initiated with the prime purpose of overcoming certain juristic doctrines disfavoring women. Nevertheless, from the female perspective, such a statesponsored approach has...
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
2011
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/6777/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6777/2/Edgj_1360.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/6777/5/gj.2011.11.1.1360.pdf |