Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period

ISBN-13: 9780815636465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Elizabeth Brownson

Opis

Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari'a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson's archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women's active participation in their legal affairs.