Conservative Approach to “Rationalizing” the Sharia Law

The Muslim community of India follows Islamic laws that cover family and inheritance issues. Religious leaders have so far been reluctant to take drastic actions in the codification of Muslim personal law. After the 1947 partition of India, the country’s government refused to modify family laws of the religious communities and vested the entire authority in the communal leaders. Most of Muslim leaders belong to various conservative religious schools competing with each other. In 1972, they founded the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which consolidated a majority of the religious movements and mazhabs — Islamic law schools. At the turn of the 21th century this organization started to take steps in the codification of family laws, including the elaboration of a new standard for nikahnama (Muslim marriage contract). The proposed version of nikahnama has resulted in active discussions triggered by India’s Muslim women organizations and ulamas from different Islamic schools

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