Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189997 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/152
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Key methodological issues include how to focus on real-world views and practices rather than only texts, disentangle the effects of patriarchal regional cultures from the effects of Islamic law, and compare the gendered effects of Islamic court practices with the most probable local alternatives. We look in greater detail at three countries - Tunisia, Indonesia, and Iran - to detect probable mechanisms shaping women's access to divorce and to property.
Subjects: 
courts
ethnography
gender
Islam
judges
law
JEL: 
K36
J12
J16
Z12
Z13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-378-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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