Adjudicating Family Law in Muslim Courts

Elisa Giunchi is an Assistant Professor of History and Institutions of Muslim Countries at the University of Milan, Italy.

1. From jurists’ ijtihad to neo-judicial ijtihad: some introductory remarks 2. Shari‘a courts and Muslim family law in Lebanon 3. The application of Muslim personal law in India: a system of legal pluralism in action 4. Family law in Pakistan: using the secular to influence the religious 5. The enforcement of personal status law by Egyptian courts 6. Courts and reform of personal status law in Egypt: Access to judicial divorce for injury and polygamy 7. The potential within: adjudications on shiqaq (discord) divorce by Moroccan judges 8. Family law in post revolutionary Iran. Closing the doors of ijtihad? 9. Islamic family law in secular Turkish courts