[Rezension von: Engelcke, Dörthe, Reforming family law]
Reforming Family Law is a highly detailed comparative analysis of religion-based reform in two countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It asks, “Why Jordan and Morocco, two seemingly similar semi-authoritarian monarchies, vary in how they engage in [Islamic] family law reform” (...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 332-334 |
| Review of: | Reforming family law (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Sonneveld, Nadia)
Reforming family law (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Sonneveld, Nadia) Reforming Family Law (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Sonneveld, Nadia) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Family law
/ Mittlerer Osten
/ North Africa
/ Jordan
/ Morocco
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBL Near East and North Africa XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Reforming Family Law is a highly detailed comparative analysis of religion-based reform in two countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It asks, “Why Jordan and Morocco, two seemingly similar semi-authoritarian monarchies, vary in how they engage in [Islamic] family law reform” (p. 8). Engelcke’s analysis is based on an impressive number of written sources (e.g., family laws, minutes of parliamentary debates, CEDAW documents, speeches of the Kings) and 120 semi-structured interviews in Jordan and Morocco.The book consists of a lengthy introduction (chapter 1), where the author rightly urges the field of Islamic family law studies to move beyond the women’s quest and employ a state-in-society approach instead. Rather than asking only whether the reform has improved the rights of women, scholars should also study the various power relations that impact family law reform and which help explain differences and similarities between countries. History, the author argues, matters in the reform process, and in chapters 2 and 3 she provides a very interesting and meticulous analysis of the impact of colonial legacies on state building and post-independence family law reform, showing, among other things, why the religious courts were abolished in Morocco but not in Jordan. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csab014 |