Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim (Montreal McGill University)

Child Custody in Islamic Law

Theory and Practice in Egypt Since the Sixteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In this longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim challenges Euro-American exceptionalism and unveils developments akin to the Euro-American concept of the best interests of the child, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781108456197
• ISBN-10: 1108456197
• Artikelnr.: 59638339

Autorenporträt

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim is Assistant Professor of Islamic Law at McGill University, Montréal. He has been writing about the theory and practice of Islamic law in the pre-modern and modern periods by examining both juristic discourse and court records. His research has been supported by numerous bodies, including the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Qatar.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Child Custody and Guardianship in Comparative Perspective: 1. Child custody in civil and common law jurisdictions; 2. The best interests of the child in juristic discourse; Part II. Ottoman Egyptian Practice 1517
1801: 3. Private separation deeds in action; 4. Ottoman juristic discourse in action (1517
1801); 5. Child custody in Egypt 1801
1929; 6. Twentieth
and twenty
first
century child custody (1929
2014).