CONTENTS

List ofTables vii

Acknowledgements viii

Editors ix

List of Contributors xi

Introduction 1

Hilal Ahmed

PART I

History and Law 13

1 Of Statutes and Scriptures: Diversity, Democracy, Personal

Laws and Courts 15

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2 Muslim Personal Law from a Cross-national and Comparative

Law Perspective 42

Werner Menski and Kalindi Kokal

3 Decoding Uniform Civil Code (UCC): A Sociological Analysis 63 Abdul Matin

4 Muslim Personal Law Reform and Human Rights 73

Furqan Ahmad

PART II

Politics and Law 87

5 Muslim Personal Law and Triple Talaq: Claims, Counterclaims

and the Media Discourse 89

Nazima Parveen

6 Triple Talaq Bill and Reforming the Muslim Personal

Law in India 110

Maidul Islam

7 Politics of Shariat in Postcolonial India 120

Hilal Ahmed

PART III

Gender and Law 133

8 Challenging the Hegemonic Discourse: All India Muslim

Women Personal Law Board and Gender Justice 135

Misbah Rashid

9 Gender Equality Should Guide the Process of Reforming

Family Laws and Not National Integration 151

Irfan Engineer

Bibliography 157

Index 169

TABLES

0.1 Opinion on the triple talaq issue 8

0.2 Muslim opinion on triple talaq 9

0.3 Muslim response on triple talaq (region-wise) 9

0.4 Should Muslims have their own religious courts? 10

3.1 Highest Mansabs 66