British-Muslim family law and citizenship

amonIg British Muslim medical practitioners

Editor's note Miss Molkoy, a British Muslim and a trained nurse has been carryingout researchfor the Certiftcate in the Study of Islam at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. This paper is based on that research. In collecting her evidence on attitudes to medical ethics Miss Molloy explores with her survey sample such topics as contraception, life support machines, ...

ترجمه،نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتاب : women family and gender in islamic law

موضوع این تحقیق ترجمه ، نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتابی است بانام "women, family and gender in islamic law" [زنان، خانواده وجنسیت درحقوق اسلام]. اصل کتاب به زبان انگلیسی است؛ ما علاوه برترجمه، برآن حاشیه نیززده ایم. ونهایتا نقدوبررسی نیز کرده ایم. درفصل نقدوبررسی پس ازایرادمقدمه، نخستین سخن را به بحثی به نام "تنازع پیش فرض ها" اختصاص دادیم. جان سخن ما دراین بحث این است که ازآنجاکه مسلمانان باغیرمسل...

Supplementary appendix to Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh

This is a companion paper to Ambrus, Field and Torrero (2009). We extend the theoretical analysis of a marriage market with prenuptial agreements to a dynamic setting, in which individuals can reenter the marriage market after failed marriages. We show that the qualitative conclusions of the static analysis remain valid in the dynamic framework. Additionally, we provide examples, both in the st...

Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh∗

Existing theoretical and empirical research on dowries has difficulty accounting for the large changes in dowry levels observed in many countries over the past few decades. To explain trends in dowry levels in Bangladesh, we draw attention to an institutional feature of marriage contracts previously ignored in the literature: the mehr or traditional Islamic brideprice, which functions as a pren...

Citizenship-as-Identity in British political discourse: New Labour and the UK Citizenship test