Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Part I - Articles
Islam & International Criminal Law: A Brief (In)compatibility Study
Michael J. Kelly
Th e Wife's Duty of Obedience to her Husband under Tunisian Law
Imen Gallala
Single Mothers and Children Born out of Wedlock in the Kingdom
of Morocco
Kai Kreutzberger
Islam, Ethnicity and the Problem of Mixed Legality: Two Malaysian
Cases
Iza Hussin
Is Zina bil-Jabr a Hadd, Ta'zir or Syasa Offence? A Re-Appraisal of the
Protection of Women Act, 2006 in Pakistan
Muhammad Munir
Part II - Country Surveys
Egypt - Kosheri, Rashed & Riad
Syria - Jacques el-Hakim
Iraq - Sabah Al-Mukhtar
Jordan - Hamzeh Haddad
Palestine - Emma Brown
Lebanon - Nayla Comair-Obeid
Kuwait - Nazih Abdul Hameed A-S
Qatar: A Hybrid of Legal Traditions - Malik R. Dahlan &
Khalid El-Sherif
Bahrain - Husain M. Al Baharna
Oman - Trowers & Hamlins
Yemen - Nageeb Shamiri
Iran - M.A. Ansaripour
Morroco - Michele Zirari-Devif
Saudi Arabia - Malik R. Dahlan & Hani Zedan
Tunisia - Salsabil Klibi
Malaysia - Ummi Hani' Binti Maso'od
Indonesia - Hesti Setyowati & Karima Mustika Burhan
Part III - Selected Documents
Sudan/Dafur
Arrest Warrant against Omar Al Bashir as issued by the Pre-Trial
Chamber I of the International Criminal Court
Lebanon
Detention Order of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Part IV- Selected Cases
Yemen
Yemen Case Law
Nageeb Shamiri
Pakistan
3rd November 2007 Emergency case
Part V - Book Review
Niaz A. Shah, Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law:
The Experience of Pakistan, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006
Mashood A. Baderin
Judith Tucker, Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Matthias Vanhullebusch
