Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt: Negotiating Muslim Family Law

by Mulki Al-Sharmani

In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious contestations among different factions of society. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, two significant reforms were introduced in Egyptian personal status laws: women's right to petition for no-fault judicial divorce law (khul') and the new mediation-based family courts.
Gender Justice and Legal Reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774167759
• ISBN13: 9789774167751
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"