Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States

This book traces and compares the approaches of different Arab League mem- ber states to a set of issues in the family law codifications that apply to their majority Muslim populations as they appear in the early years of the twenty- first century ce. Looking at ‘text’ in this way has become rather unfashion- able in at least some parts of the Western academy. This is mostly due to disciplinary developments in the specialist fields and in the profiles of schol- ars joining them – which, as elsewhere in scholarship, serve to locate and date earlier scholarship not only by years but by approach and perspective. Some well-deserved...