TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shehada,Nahda Younis
ED  - Taylor and Francis.
TI  - Applied family law in Islamic courts: Shari’a courts in Gaza 
T2  - Islamic law in context
SN  - 9781315100531
AV  - KMG187 
U1  - 346.5694/3015 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis
KW  - Domestic relations (Islamic law)
KW  - Gaza Strip
KW  - Domestic relations courts
KW  - Islamic courts
KW  - LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW / Courts
KW  - LAW / Family Law / General
N1  - chapter 1 Introduction; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 2 Islamic jurisprudence now and in the past; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 3 The Gaza Shari‘a courts --; An overview; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 4 The daily practice of judges --; Perception vs reality; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 5 The sociology of Nafaqa (maintenance); Nahda Shehada --; chapter 6 Obedience, rebelliousness and agency; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 7 The articulation of gendered parenthood --; Care vs guardianship; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 8 Civil society, women’s movement and family law reform; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 9 Change, a step at a time; Nahda Shehada --; chapter 10 Epilogue; Nahda Shehada
N2  - Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine. It examines the way judges, lawyers and litigants operate with respect to the law and with each other, particularly given their different positions in the power structure within the court and within society at large. The book aims at elucidating ambivalences in the codified statutes that allow the actors to find practical solutions to their (often) legally unresolved problems and to manipulate the law. The book demonstrates that present-day judges are not only confronted with novel questions they have to find an answer to, but, perhaps more importantly, they are confronted with contradictions between the letter of codified law and their own notions of justice. The author reminds us that these notions of justice should not be set a priori; they are socially constructed in particular time and space
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315100531
ER  -