Muslims are the second largest religious community of India and therefore their personal law constitutes an important chapter of the Nation’s legal system.
This book offers a comprehensive study of the entire gamut of Muslim law as applicable in India. Extensive critiques of each of the legislative enactments of India in this sphere are followed by a lucid exposition of the principles of uncodified Muslim law in their true spirit and in conformity with the present-day social conditions.
With a view to inviting attention to the contemporary understanding of Muslim law elsewhere, the book ends with glimpses of its reform in many of the Muslim-dominated and Muslim-minority countries.
Texts of all statutory laws of India on the subject are included in the book and cases coverage is until January 2012.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Saif Mahmood
Dr. Saif Mahmood is Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and frequently appears before various Indian courts and international and domestic tribunals.
He holds a Doctoral degree in comparative constitutional law of South Asia and writes on legal, social and literary issues.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tahir Mahmood
Tahir Mahmood received his legal education at Lucknow, Aligharh Muslim University and later at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at London. He is well known for his specialised academic and research work in law and Religion, Islamic Law and the Legal System of Muslim Countries andvarious personal laws of India. He has been teaching the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Delhi University. In 1980 he set up a Department of Law which has now been raised to the Centre for Advanced Socio - Lega Studies. He is also one of the founders of the Faculty of Law established in 1989 at Jamia Millia Islamia .Now he a senior Professor of Laws at the University of Delhi.On deputation to the Government of India where he held the prestigious position of Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities. Professor Mehmood has widely travelled in all parts of the Globe and has been closely associated with the top academic bodies of the world including the International Society of Family Law set up in 1975 in Germany and the Organisation of Islamic Conference Islamic Fiqh Academy Jeddah .He has also been opted on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Jeddah based Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs .Author of many well known books, Mahmood is also Founder Editor of of two well established periodicals-the Islamic and Comparative Law Review and the Religion and Law Review.published from the IOS. A specialist in religion based and religion related laws, Mahmood has been writing on these subjects since 1972.
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