Research Article

Cases of Dower in İslamic Jurisprudence

Volume: 15 Number: 2 December 30, 2015
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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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Turkish

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Religion, Society and Culture Studies

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Research Article

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Publication Date

December 30, 2015

Submission Date

October 1, 2015

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Year 1970 Volume: 15 Number: 2

ISNAD
Şirin, Şükrü. “İslâm Hukukunda Mehir Davaları”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 15/2 (December 1, 2015): 297-320. https://izlik.org/JA24EN45PX.