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Muslim Women and Shari'ah Councils: Transcending the Boundaries of Community and Law

Written over a period of 7 years this book offers a powerful insight into one of the most complex social problems of our time. Through intensive, first-hand and methodologically structured experiences with Muslim communities it develops an analysis that contributes a new and original model that offers a detailed alternative to existing models of multicultural legal realism in Britain. With a body of empirical field work including preliminary investigations, conducted over a period of ten years, it focuses on the condition of women and persuasively demonstrates that formalised incorporation of religious systems of law not only misconstrues the needs of Muslim women, but mostly ignores their articulated wishes.