Judicial Ijtihād as a Tool for Legal Reform: Extending Women's Right to Divorce under Islamic Law in Pakistan

In a series of judgments starting in 1959, Pakistani judges reformed Islamic family law by extending women's right to no-fault based divorce (khulʿ). For this purpose, they directly interpreted the Qurʾān and Sunnah, and removed the requirement of the consent of a husband for judicial khulʿ. Th...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Islamic law and society 2017-01, Vol.24 (4), p.384-411
1. Verfasser:	Abbasi, Muhammad Zubair
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
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