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Faith-Based Approaches To Ecological Harmony And Environmental Protection, Nadia B. Ahmad
Faith-Based Approaches To Ecological Harmony And Environmental Protection, Nadia B. Ahmad
Faculty Scholarship
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From The Ulama To The Legislature: Hermeneutics & Morocco’S Family Code, Rachel Olick-Gibson
From The Ulama To The Legislature: Hermeneutics & Morocco’S Family Code, Rachel Olick-Gibson
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This study examines the role that Islamic law has played thus far in reforming the Moroccan Family Code, also known as the Moudawana. When King Mohammed VI reformed this law in 2004, Morocco received immediate international praise for its liberal strides towards gender equality. Through this study I investigated the hermeneutical tools and methods of ijtihad employed both by the drafters of the Moudawana and by activists leading up to the 2004 reforms. I then investigate impediments to the implementation of this Code in providing substantive legal rights to Moroccan women and the role that interpretation of Islamic law plays …
The Modern Architecture Of Religious Freedom As A Fundamental Right, Peter G. Danchin
The Modern Architecture Of Religious Freedom As A Fundamental Right, Peter G. Danchin
Faculty Scholarship
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