Equality, Plurality and Personal Status Laws

Preface; Introduction, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Baudouin Dupret and Jean-Louis Halp©rin; Part 1: Personal Status Laws and Minorities; 1. Personal Status in Historical Context, Jean-Louis Halp©rin; 2. Accounting for Legal Pluralism in Action: A Case Study of Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia and its Praxeological Implications, Ayang Utriza Yakin and Baudouin Dupret; 3. Countries Falling Outside the Scope of the Research, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron and Zohra Aziad© Zemirli; 4. From a Static Typology to a Typology of Dynamic Tensions, Jean-Louis Halp©rin, Radhika Kanchana and Zohra Aziad© Zemirli; Part 2: Countries Witnessing Tensions with the Principle of Equality; 5. The Imbroglio of Personal Status in Cameroon between Multi-Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Equality, Th©r¨se Atangana-Malongue; 6. The Long-Standing Quest for the Unification of Egyptian Family Law, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron and Karim El-Chazli; 7. Personal Status Laws in India: An Ambiguous Path Towards a Uniform Civil Code, Jean-Philippe Dequen; 8. Personal Status Law in Indonesia: Discursive and Practical Debate on Equality (Between Muslims and Non-Muslims), Euis Nurlaelawati; 9. Personal Status Law in Israel: A Country Witnessing Tensions with the Principle of Equality, Ido Shahar; 10. Kadhi Courts and the Persistence of Legal Pluralism in Kenya's Family Law System, Zohra Aziad© Zemirli; 11. The Principle of Equality and the Pluralism of Personal Status: Reflections based on the Lebanese System, L©na Gannag©; 12. Personal Law in Malaysia: A Tale of Different Systems â" Tensions between Plurality and Equality, Kerstin Steiner; 13. Legal and Religious Pluralism in Nigeria, Deborah Scolart; 14. Palestine: "Yasser Arafat Could Have Done What Bourguiba Did, but There's No Room for That Now", Lynn Welchman; 15. Equality in Senegalese Law: Senegal's Family Code on a Knife-Edge, Mari¨me N'diaye; 16. Equality and Plural Personal Status Laws in Tanzania: Tensions between Customary Law, State Law, and International Law, Laurean L. Mussa and Erin E. Stiles; Part 3: Countries Witnessing Gaps in the Implementation of Legal Pluralism in Practice; 17. Examining the Gaps: Implementation of Personal Status Laws and Constitutional Inequality in Bangladesh, Anisur Rahman; 18. Through an Islamic Lens: Inequalities in Brunei's Personal Status Laws, Ann E. Black; 19. Shi'i Jurisprudence and the Structure of Personal Status Law in Iran, Hengameh Hoveyda; 20. The Vicissitudes of Personal Status Pluralism in Iraq: A New Tower of Babel?, Harith Al-Dabbagh; 21. The Absence of a Unified Civil Code in Jordan: Implications for Women and Religious Minorities, Zohra Aziad© Zemirli; 22. Statutory Weakening and Bureaucratic Hurdles in the Implementation of Legal Pluralism in Myanmar, Elizabeth Rhoads; 23. A Right to Inequality? Islam and the Development of Pakistan's Personal Status Law System from Independence to the Present, Martin Lau; 24. Sudan's Legal Framework on Personal Status Laws, Equality and non-Discrimination, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker; 25. From Confessional Mosaic to Legal Mosaic: Syrian Personal Status Codes, Tarek Al Asfary; Part 4: Countries Witnessing Mild Tension with the Principle of Equality; 26. Personal Status Laws in Ethiopia: a Country Witnessing Tensions with the Principle of Equality, Katrin Seidel; 27. A Near Theocracy for Personal Status â" Gender-Based Discrimination in The Gambia's Marriage and Divorce Laws, Raeesa Rajmohamed; 28. Plurality of Personal Status Laws in Ghana, a Country Witnessing Tensions with the Principle of Equality, Fulera Issaka-Toure; 29. The Mufti System and Islamic Law in Western Thrace, Greece, Y¼ksel Sezgin; 30. Jewish Law in a Muslim Country: The Survival of Rabbinical Courts in Morocco, Tachfine Baida; 31. The Case of Muslimness in Filipino Legal Pluralism, Megumi Kagawa; 32. Challenges to the Applicability of the Principle of Equality: The Case of Formal and Informal Jurisdictions in Niger, Mali and Chad, Abdou Samadou Yahaya; 33. Personal Laws in Singapore: A Balancing Act between Plurality and Equality, Kerstin Steiner; 34. Constitutional Preservation of Inequalities: Application of Personal Status Laws in Sri Lanka, Binendri Perera; 35. Legal Pluralism Tolerated: The Implementation of Sharia Law in Thailand's Southernmost, Eug©nie M©rieau