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Lifting The Veil: Women And Islamic Law, Christie S. Warren Sep 2019

Lifting The Veil: Women And Islamic Law, Christie S. Warren

Christie S. Warren

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Introduction To Special Collection: Seminar Papers On Women And Islamic Law, Christie S. Warren Sep 2019

Introduction To Special Collection: Seminar Papers On Women And Islamic Law, Christie S. Warren

Christie S. Warren

No abstract provided.


Sharia Law Poses No Threat To American Courts, Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

Sharia Law Poses No Threat To American Courts, Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

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How To Judge Shari'a Contracts: A Guide To Islamic Marriage Agreements In American Courts, Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

How To Judge Shari'a Contracts: A Guide To Islamic Marriage Agreements In American Courts, Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

This Article thus has two goals. The first is to show how the Muslim conception of marriage diverges from the Christian-influenced norms that dominate American law and society. Understanding this divergence provides a necessary background to Islamic mahr contracts. The second goal is to provide lawyers and judges with a doctrinal framework within our current law for analyzing these contracts and reaching sensible results in concrete cases.


Post Secularism And The Woman Question, Lama Abu-Odeh Jan 2019

Post Secularism And The Woman Question, Lama Abu-Odeh

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

I will discuss the “woman question in post secularism” by offering my critique of Saba Mahmood’s book “Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject”. But before I do so, let me just state that I am a legal academic and I am not a reader of the field of anthropology. I am unfamiliar with the theoretic jargon of the discipline- even less so of the jargon of the subfield, anthropology of religion from which Politics of Piety hails. Each discipline is autonomous more so fields of study within each discipline. Those fields usually coalesce around a celebrity …