Muslim Personal Law in South Africa (e-book)
Muslim Personal Law in South Africa: Evolution and Future Status, the first South African book on the topic of Muslim personal law, introduces readers to the debate on the awarding of unique rights to specific communities.
| e-book ISBN: | 9781485127161 |
| Publisher: | Juta Publishers |
| Variant: | e-book |
| Author(s): | Dangor, S and Moosa, N |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
Content
- Chapter 1: An introduction to Muslim personal law in South Africa: Past to present – Najma Moosa and Suleman Dangor
- Chapter 2: A legal and historical excursus of Muslim personal law in the colonial Cape, South Africa, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century – Shouket Allie
- Chapter 3: Muslim personal law—an update – Mahomed Solomon Navsa
- Chapter 4: The debate regarding Muslim personal law in South Africa: Achieving a balancing of interests – Yousuf Dadoo and Fawzia Cassim
- Chapter 5: Citizenship, Muslim family law and a future South African Constitution: A preliminary enquiry – Firoz Cachalia
- Chapter 6: The gendered benefits and costs of legal pluralism for Muslim family law in South Africa – Waheeda Amien
- Chapter 7: Muslim family law in South Africa: Paradoxes and ironies – Ebrahim Moosa
- Chapter 8: The struggle over Muslim personal law in a rights-based Constitution: A South African case study – Abdulkader Tayob
- Chapter 9: The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law – Christa Rautenbach
- Chapter 10: A marriage of laws: The recognition of Islamic marriages through our courts – Charlene May and Seehaam Samaai
- Chapter 11: Determining the application of a system of Muslim personal law in South Africa – Fatima Seedat
- Chapter 12: Implications of the official designation of Muslim clergy as authorised civil marriage officers for Muslim polygynous, interfaith and same-sex marriages in South Africa – Najma Moosa and Muneer Abduroaf
- Chapter 13: The Muslim Marriages Bill: A legal quagmire – Mohammed Allie Moosagie
- Chapter 14: The Majlis and the Muslim Marriages Bill: A dissection – Suleman Dangor
- Chapter 15: South African engagement with Muslim personal law: The Women’s Legal Centre, Cape Town and women in Muslim marriages – Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker
- Chapter 16: The recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa: Implications for women’s human rights – Rashida Manjoo
- Chapter 17: Equal rights and recognition: Extending the protection in the Wills Act to Women in Polygynous Muslim Marriages – Seehaam Samaai, Charlene May and Harsha Gihwala
- Chapter 18: Muslim personal law in South Africa and women’s religious rights and freedoms – Wesahl Domingo
- Chapter 19: Faskh (divorce) and intestate succession in Islamic and South African law: Impact of the watershed judgment in Hassam v Jacobs and the Muslim Marriages Bill – Najma Moosa and Muneer Abduroaf
- Chapter 20: New trend of legal transplant to triple talaq: Lessons for South Africa – Faizal Ahmad Manjoo
- Chapter 21: Arbitration and mediation as an alternative paradigm for the recognition of faith-based personal law – Ziyad Motala
- Chapter 22: Proprietary consequences of Muslim marriages and contractual capacity of spouses – Muhamed Fazel Bulbulia
- Chapter 23: Muslim Marriages Bill—Mapping the ongoing socio-ethico-legal challenges facing South African women – Essa Moosa
- Chapter 24: Muslim Marriages Bill impasse—an interim way forward – Abdul Karim Toffar
- Chapter 25: Conclusion – Najma Moosa and Suleman Dangor
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