Muslim marriage in western courts: lost in transplantation/
Pascale Fournier
- England: Rourledge, 2010.
- 206 p.
The roots of mahr and the hybrid transplant: introducing mahr as an Islamic legal conception and as a fragmented legal concept; When mahr travels: adjudicating mahr in Canada, the United States, France, and Germany; Nourishing the transplanted law: fertile soil or rocky ground?; Contradictions in the reception of mahr as ideology and subjectivity; Samir and Leila revisited: the adjudication and reception of mahr and its subjective significance for Muslim women; Deep roots and tall branches: conclusions on the reception of mahr by Western courts