Muslim marriage is a contract, not a sacrament. Though it has importance as the only religiously sanctioned way for individuals to have legitimate sexual relationships and to procreate (now that slave ...

NEW YORK — Should anything go wrong in her marriage, Zaynab Abdul-Razacq is confident her rights will be well-protected. Her husband has guaranteed it — in writing. The young Muslim couple chose a ...

Should anything go wrong in her marriage, Zaynab Abdul-Razacq is confident her rights will be well-protected. Her husband has guaranteed it — in writing. The young Muslim couple chose a path advocated ...

After criticizing Muslim clerics in India for treating wives unfairly in disputes with their husbands, one activist is distributing a new marriage contract. Couples are slowly signing on. LUCKNOW, ...

From Nouri v. Dadgar (Md. Ct. Spec. App. Apr. 7): These two cases, consolidated for purposes of this opinion, present the same issue of first impression in Maryland: May a civil court adjudicating a ...

In a small town north of Cairo, an Egyptian woman has quietly made history by becoming the first female marriage official in the Muslim world. Although the job is clerical rather than religious — not ...

Muslim marriage contracts include a provision called mahr, which American courts have misconstrued to be prenuptial agreements. Recently, the New Jersey Superior Court, in Odatalla v. Odatalla, ...

CISAAT, Indonesia — Her first contract marriage was to a tourist from Saudi Arabia. He was in his 50s, and she was 17. They wed in a small ceremony in a guest room at a three-star hotel in Jakarta ...

For traditional Muslim jurists, as indeed for most societies in the pre-modern world, marriage was not primarily about the free choice of life partners by individuals, though an element of individual ...

I’m taking contracts this semester, and if I’ve learned anything—and I have because Professor Asimow is awesome—it’s: put everything in writing and, though no one does it, please, please, please read ...

The High Court has upheld the provision in Muslim family law that requires permission from an arbitration council, not the ...