FILIATION AND ADOPTION AMONG MUSLIMS IN INDIA: THE QUAGMIRES OF A RELIGIOUS MINORITY LAW

Filiation among Muslims in India is governed by Muslim personal law, a largely uncodified corpus of key Islamic legal treatises that has subsequently been interpreted and applied through the Common Law frame of British colonial courts and the post-Independence Indian judicial system by virtue of the...

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Main Author: Dequen, Jean-Philippe (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 336-355
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B India / Religious minority / Islamic law / Abstammungsrecht / Adoption
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBM Asia
XA Law
Further subjects:B Evidence Act
B Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act
B Customary law
B Muslim personal law
B Legal pluralism
B Constitution of India
B fāsid marriage
B Adoption
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