The Human Rights and Women in the Context of Interfaith Marriage and Inheritance: A Comparative Analysis of Family Law in Muslim Countries

Nurul Adhha

2018

Abstract

This study aims to explain in comparative vertical, horizontal, and diagonal how family law in Turkey, Somalia, Egypt , and Indonesia on interfaith marriages and inheritance move out from the fiqh scholars in Islamic law with their legalization relationships with gender and human rights issues in these countries as one of the significant factors affecting the changes of its family law. Descriptive method with qualitative approach used to collect data by library research method. The focus of the analysis is the extent of civil law in Turkey, Somalia, Egypt and Indonesia move out from the fiqh scholars in Islamic law regarding Interfaith Marriage and Inheritance. The results of this study show Turkey, Somalia, and Indonesia are more moderate countries in regulating interfaith marriage by making human rights and gender a subject that significantly affects legal reform. While Turkey is more liberal in regulating the rules of interfaith marriage due to secular ideology. Then Somalia, Egypt and Indonesia constitutionally did not pave the way for their people to do interfaith marriage, although in reality women violence, and forced inter-clan marriage keeps interfaith marriages between religions going on in Somalia, licensing through the dioceses permission also loosening the rules in Egypt, as well as registering marriages abroad also became a middle ground for Indonesians to legalize interfaith marriages.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Adhha N. (2018). The Human Rights and Women in the Context of Interfaith Marriage and Inheritance: A Comparative Analysis of Family Law in Muslim Countries.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 964-971. DOI: 10.5220/0009921109640971

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Nurul Adhha},
title={The Human Rights and Women in the Context of Interfaith Marriage and Inheritance: A Comparative Analysis of Family Law in Muslim Countries},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={964-971},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009921109640971},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Human Rights and Women in the Context of Interfaith Marriage and Inheritance: A Comparative Analysis of Family Law in Muslim Countries
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Adhha N.
PY - 2018
SP - 964
EP - 971
DO - 10.5220/0009921109640971