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| Title: | The family structure in Islam |
| Author: | Abdal Ati, Hammudah |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Pages: | 360 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Lagos |
| Publisher: | Islamic Publications Bureau |
| Geographic terms: | Islamic countries Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Islamic law marriage law family law |
| Abstract: | Foreword by Morroe BERGER. An examination of the family structure in the context of Islamic law, religion and classical Muslim society, focusing on the basic laws and dimensions of marriage, kinship roles, legitimacy, divorce and inheritance. The temporal cantext is confined to the formative period of Islamic law, that is, to the first four centuries of Islamic history (roughly from the seventh to the eleventh century). |