Child custody in Islamic law : theory and practice in Egypt since the sixteenth century /

Child custody in Islamic law : theory and practice in Egypt since the sixteenth century /

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Author / Creator:	Ibrahim, Ahmed Fekry, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	ix, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Subject:	Custody of children (Islamic law) Parent and child (Islamic law) Custody of children -- Egypt -- History. Custody of children. Custody of children. Custody of children (Islamic law) Parent and child (Islamic law) Egypt. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11699110

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ISBN:	9781108470568 1108470564
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
Summary:	Pre-modern Muslim jurists drew a clear distinction between the nurturing and upkeep of children, or "custody", and caring for the child's education, discipline, and property, known as "guardianship". Here, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim analyzes how these two concepts relate to the welfare of the child, and traces the development of an Islamic child welfare jurisprudence akin to the Euro-American concept of the best interests of the child, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Challenging Euro-American exceptionalism, he argues that child welfare played an essential role in agreements designed by early modern Egyptian judges and families, and that Egyptian child custody laws underwent radical transformations in the modern period. Focusing on a variety of themes, including matters of age and gender, the mother's marital status, and the custodian's lifestyle and religious affiliation, Ibrahim shows that there is an exaggerated gap between the modern concept of the best interests of the child and pre-modern Egyptian approaches to child welfare.

Table of Contents:

Child custody in civil and common law jurisdictions
The best interests of the child in juristic discourse
Private separation deeds in action
Ottoman juristic discourse in action (1517-1801)
Child custody in Egypt, 1801-1929
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century child custody (1929-2014).