Islamic Law 
Shariah: Symbolic V. Legal Meaning(Comments Off)
Attorney Rafia Zakaria explains how distance from its original sources over time and geographical space has changed Islamic jurisprudence.[...]
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Why Codification Of Muslim Personal Law?
Rethinking Muslim personal law as prevalent in India is certainly not to violate divine injunctions as often maintained by some people but to bring in much closer to divine injunctions i.e. to infuse in them really divine spirit. Well it may not always be possible to achieve complete unanimity but certainly we will attempt to create a broad consensus around codification so that Muslims women really enjoy equal status as they are entitled to according to Qur’anic injunctions and also in accordance to modern laws.
Conference Report: Islamic Family Law Reforms
Much has been written about Islamic family laws and Muslim women’s status and rights by Western or secular critics and human rights activists, on the one hand, and by traditionalist ulema, on the other. The former are generally bitterly anti-Islamic, and the latter often fiercely patriarchal, and there is absolutely no meeting ground between the two groups.
Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice
Muslim India Topics: Shariah (Islamic Law)
Despite uproar, Shariah takes hold quitly among Muslims
By Elaine Sciolino , November, 19 2008
LONDON — The woman in black wanted an Islamic divorce. She told the religious judge that her husband hit her, cursed her and wanted her dead.
But [...]