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Triple talaq in India: in favour or against? (on the protection of muslim women's rights during divorce)
 
PIIS032150750000510-3-1
DOI10.31857/S032150750000510-3
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Mariia Starikova 
Occupation: Post-graduate student
Affiliation: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Address: Russian Federation, 125009, Moscow, Mokhovaya Str., 1-11
Journal nameAsia and Africa Today
EditionIssue 8
Pages73-77
Abstract

In present-day India, Muslim women’s organizations launch large-scale campaigns for women’s rights. Muslim personal law has proved to be discriminative towards the Muslim women. Muslim spiritual leaders tend to support and protect the existing religious laws in India; they launch campaigns against governmental initiatives for the reforms and also agitate against the activities of Muslim women’s groups. A majority in the Muslim community’s elite doesn’t want to lose its power in the jurisdictional field. Moreover, ulama still represent the main patriarchal forces and don’t want to implement modern paradigms into the life of the community’s members. This situation has resulted in the feeling of impunity and irresponsibility in marital questions. Women’s organizations have been engaged in a vast grass-root work; currently, they aim at the empowerment of poor women in the rural areas seeking for their support in the campaigns against discrimination of women. Most of the women’s groups prefer not to interfere in the Muslim personal law reforms; however, some organizations have been aiming at the codification of religious laws. Owing to the activity of such organizations and support rendered by the Indian government in August 2017, the Supreme Court of India adopted a ban on ‘triple talaq’- a practice that had discriminated Muslim women. In six months following the ban the government was supposed to pass a law on the divorce process in the Muslim community, but the draft document proved to be controversial and prompted a large-scale debate among India’s Muslims as well as among other social and political groups. The discussion about the proposed law is still underway.

KeywordsIndia, Muslim community, Muslim personal law, divorce, talaq
Received09.10.2018
Publication date14.10.2018
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