Human Rights Under State Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, - Egypt and Indi

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Personal status, nation-building, and the postcolonial state; 3. The impact of state-enforced personal status laws on human rights; 4. A fragmented confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Israel; 5. A unified confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Egypt; 6. A unified semi-confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in India; 7. Conclusion: upholding human rights under religious legal systems.

About the author

Yüksel Sezgin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, where his research and teaching interests include legal pluralism, informal justice systems, comparative religious law, and human and women's rights in the context of the Middle East, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Summary

Yüksel Sezgin looks at the impact of state-enforced religious family laws on human rights in Israel, Egypt and India, identifies the various resistance strategies which rights activists have successfully mobilized in these jurisdictions and makes proposals for the integration of universal human rights principles into religious legal systems.

Product details

• Authors: Y. Ksel Sezgin, Yuksel Sezgin, Yüksel Sezgin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107636491
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63649-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, Israel, Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Family Law / General, Egypt, comparative religion, Human rights & civil liberties law, India, Family Law, comparative law, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, International human rights law