Doctrinal Change in Islamic Law: the Right of a Wife to Judicial Divorce

Thu Nov 28 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

Paul Webley Wing, SOAS | London

Jonathan Ercanbrack
Publisher/HostJonathan Ercanbrack
Doctrinal Change in Islamic Law: the Right of a Wife to Judicial Divorce
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Learn about how the right to judicial divorce came to be part of substantive Maliki law.
About this Event

, Professor of Law, University of Toronto will speak about the Maliki rule permitting wives' access to judicial divorce upon proof of harm (darar)' and how this rule has become widely adopted in modern Islamic family law. Yet, the concept of darar as grounds for a judicial divorce is absent in the earliest sources of Maliki law. This talk will discuss how the right to judicial divorce came to be part of substantive Maliki law and what that process tells us about how doctrinal change took place in Islamic law in the age before parliaments.

Join experts Professor Lynn Welchman, Professor of Law (SOAS) and Professor Mashood Baderin, Professor of Law (SOAS), who will discuss Professor Fadel's research. This event will take place on 28 November from 7-9 pm at the Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, in the Senate Wolfson Lecture Theatre (1st Floor).

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Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, Torrington Square, London, United Kingdom

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