Marriage and Divorce: Legal Foundations

Authors

Azizah Y. al-Hibri, University of RichmondFollow

Abstract

A six-volume work, this set constitutes a major revision and massive expansion of the 1995 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. In addition to covering Islamic societies in the modern world from the eighteenth century to the present, as the earlier four-volume set did, it will add a depth of historical background going back to the pre- Islamic era. The new reference also covers the full geographical extent of Islam by focusing not only on the countries in which Islam is dominant, but also on regions in which Muslims live as minorities, such as Europe and the Americas.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Comments

Edited by John L. Esposito.

Recommended Citation

Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Marriage and Divorce: Legal Foundations, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (John L. Esposito, ed., Oxford University Press 2009).