Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries
This book is the first analysis of parental care regimes in Muslim jurisdictions, both in a comparative and country-specific sense. It contains the proceedings of a workshop on Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries that the
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Nadjma Yassari Lena-Maria Möller Imen Gallala-Arndt Editors
Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries
Nadjma Yassari · Lena-Maria Möller Imen Gallala-Arndt Editors
Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries
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Editors Nadjma Yassari Max Planck Research Group: Changes in God’s Law—An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg Germany
Imen Gallala-Arndt Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle Germany
Lena-Maria Möller Max Planck Research Group: Changes in God’s Law—An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg Germany
ISBN 978-94-6265-173-9 ISBN 978-94-6265-174-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-6265-174-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960773 Published by t.m.c. asser press, The Hague, The Netherlands www.asserpress.nl Produced and distributed for t.m.c. asser press by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © t.m.c. asser press and the authors 2017 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper This t.m.c. asser press imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany The registered company address is: Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany
Preface
This volume compiles selected contributions to the workshop ‘Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries’, which, under the auspices of the Max Planck Research Group ‘Changes in God’s Law—An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws’, was convened at the Centre Jacques Berque pour les Études en Sciences Humaines et Sociales au Maroc in Rabat, Morocco, 1–5 April 2015. The workshop brought together the members of the Max Planck Working Group on Child Law in Muslim Countries that was established in 2014 to conduct comparative studies on various fields of child law in Muslim countries. The first project of the Working Group focused on the principle of the best interests of the child and parental care. In recent years, legislatures of many Muslim countries have revised the conventional Islamic rules on child custody. Whereas in the past, rules were oriented on fixed age brackets and the gender of the parent and child, they have increasingly been formulated in favour of the principle
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