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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Muslim Personal Law"”.
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An Analysis of the Human Rights and Gender consequences of the New South African Constitution and Bill of Rights with regards to the recognition and implementation of Muslim Personal Law
… on them. With a new dispensation in place Muslim women, however, still have to deal with identities attributed to them by religion and culture. The author of this dissertation is herself a Muslim woman who has struggled to reconcile her public life and "new found" equality with these …
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Application of Muslim personal & family law in South Africa : law, ideology and socio-political implications
… level of the differing political perceptions of Muslims and at the level of how they interact with the modern-state. This study approaches the subject from two angles. The first deals with a community's self-perception in relation to its religious symbols and values. The second involves an …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… explores the relationship between gender and Muslim community identity in late colonial India. It pursues two broad themes. The first of these is the way in which gender issues were used symbolically by Muslim religious and political leaders to give substance to a community identity based …
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The intersection between the Islamic law of inheritance and the South African law of succession
While Muslims constitute 2% of South Africa's population, they formed an integral part of the South Africa's socio-political and historical landscape for over 350 years. Despite their historical marginalisation, in post-apartheid South Africa there are still no legislative provisions recognising …