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4. After settling the Disagreements about Al-Khul’a, Arbitration, Civil Marriage, and a Wife’s Traveling, Al-Azhar agreed to the new Personal Status Law
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 1999
Before referring the draft of the Law Regulating the Personal Status to the People’s Assembly, President Hosni Mubarak held a meeting to ensure that the rules of Islamic Shari’a canonical were met in the draft. In the deliberations of the Azhar on the new draft there were disagreements, however, on...
1. Dr. ’Abdel Mo’ti Mohammed Bayoumi, Dean of the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion [at Al-Azhar University]: Under the Al-Khul’a system, a husband cannot take more than what he has given his wife
Date of source: Friday, April 2, 1999
Khul’a, a new item in the Personal Status Draft Law, gives a woman the right to divorce her husband without explanation in exchange for renouncing all her rights and returning the dowry he had given for her. This interview explains the story behind the new legislation.
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