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Cases of Dower in İslamic Jurisprudence
Abstract
Cases of Dower in İslamic Jurisprudence Dower (al-mahr) is one of the most important matters revealed by Islamic law about determination and identification of women’s personal rights. Even if dower has been applied with different names in the human societies, it has won feature of being mere woman’s right thanks to Islamic law. In the Islamic law, in which money, goods, benefit have been accepted as dowers, dower has been evaluated as woman’s personal property and the mere power of disposition has been given to the woman. Every woman who is one of the sides in the marriage contract has right of dower regardless of their attributes. Although there are some disputes between sects about issues that require the becoming definite dower’s half or whole, there is an ijma about that a marriage contract can not be without a dower. The conflicts about specifying or delivering of dower have been examined and the judgements regarding the issue have been determined. In this study, the disputes about matter of dower will be handled
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Religion, Society and Culture Studies
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Şükrü Şirin
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 30, 2015
Submission Date
October 1, 2015
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 15 Number: 2