Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yassari, Nadjma (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Möller, Lena-Maria (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Najm, Marie-Claude (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; Islam-Doctrines.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .; Islamic Theology.; Middle Eastern Culture.

This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop "Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?", which was convened in Beirut, Lebanon in November 2017. Filiation is a multifaceted concept in Muslim jurisdiction...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Care of Abandoned Children in Sunni Islamic Law: Early Modern Egypt in Theory and Practice
• Chapter 2. Filiation/nasab and Family Values in Pre-Modern Shiʿi Law
• Chapter 3. Algeria
• Chapter 4. Iran
• Chapter 5. Iraq
• Chapter 6. Jordan
• Chapter 7. Lebanon
• Chapter 8. Malaysia
• Chapter 9. Morocco
• Chapter 10. Pakistan
• Chapter 11. Saudi Arabia
• Chapter 12. Tunisia
• Chapter 13. United Arab Emirates
• Chapter 14. The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Filiation Judgments in Arab Countries
• Chapter 15. Synopsis.