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Author Ibrahim, Ahmed Fekry, author

Title Child custody in Islamic law : theory and practice in Egypt since the sixteenth century / Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 266 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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)
Summary A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Custody of children (Islamic law)
Parent and child (Islamic law)
Custody of children -- Egypt -- History
Custody of children.
Child Custody
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Custody of children
Custody of children (Islamic law)
Parent and child (Islamic law)
Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108649988
110864998X