09--Divorce:  Islam

Note:  Other Islamic literature can be found under the “Foreign Language” section of mainly Islamic countries.

Abu Za, Muhammad.  al-Zawaj wa-al-talaq al-madani fi al-Qur`an.  c.1927/28.  59p.  Divorce in Islamic law.

Adamu, Muhammad Kab.  The Islamic notion of marriage & divorce.  Jos, Plateau State:  Joeart Productions, 1987.  97p.

Ahmed, Kazi Nasir-ud-Din.  A commentary on the Dissolution of Muslim marriages act, Act no.  VIII of 1939.  Karachi, India:  Legal Publications, 1955.  119p.

Ahmed, Kazi Nasir-ud-Din.  The Muslim law of divorce.  Foreword by S. Anwar-ul-Haq.  Islamabad, Pakastan:  Islamic Research Institute, 1972.  1107p.

Ali, Maulana Muhammad.  Islamic law of marriage & divorce.  Kwara State of Nigeria:  Hasbunallah Printing & Pub. House, 1998.  50p.

Bhatnagar, J. P.  Commentaries on the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 (Act No.  25 of 1986).  Allahabad, India:  Ashoka Law House, 1987.  167p.

Bhatnagar, J. P.  Commentaries on the Muslim Women:  containing the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Rules, 1986, maintenance etc.  Revised by Shaukat Nasir.  2nd ed. Allahabad, India:  Ashoka Law House, 1992.  375p.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.  The superstition of divorce.  London:  Chatto & Windus, 1920.  151p.

Choudhary, Jagdish Narain.  Divorce in Indian society:  a sociological study of marriage disruption and role adjustment.  Jaipur, India:  Printwell Publishers:  Exclusive distributor, Rupa Books International, 1988.  184p. 

Chowdhury, Obaidul Huq.  The Muslim family laws ordinance, with West Pakistan family courts act (with rules), Dissolution of Muslim marriages act & Child marriage restraint act.  3d ed.  Dacca, Pakistan:  Dacca Law Reports, 1969.  193p.

Chowdhury, Obaidul Huq.  The Muslim family laws ordinance;  Ordinance VIII of 1961.  2d ed.  Dacca, Pakistan:  Dacca Law Reports Office, 1965.  142p.

Dasuqi, Muhammad al-Sayyid.  al-Usrah fi al-tashri` al-Islami.  al-Dawhah:  Dar al-Thaqafah, 1995.  442p.

El Alami, Dawoud Sudqi, & Doreen Hinchcliffe.  Islamic marriage and divorce laws of the Arab world.  Foreword by Eugene Cotran.  London;  Boston:  Published for CIMEL SOAS by Kluwer Law International, 1996.  279p.

Five schools of Islamic fiqha (jurisprudence).  Karachi, Pakistan:  Peermahomed Ebrahim Trust, 1976.  5 volumes.  Volume 3:  Kitab-un-nikah wa talaq (the book of marriage and divorce).

Gani, H. A.  Reform of Muslim law:  the Shah Bano controversy and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986.  Foreword by Adi H. Doctor.  New Delhi, India:  Deep & Deep Publications, 1988.  176p.

Ghosh, Abinaschandra C.  The dissolution of Muslim marriages act, 1939, Act no.  VIII of 1939, with full explanatory notes and critical comments, notes on case-law, statement of objects and reasons and an appendix containing model forms of plaints for divorce suits..:  2d ed. Calcutta, India:  M. C. Sarkar, 1941.  44p.

Hasab Allah, `Ali.  al-Furqah bayna al-zawjayn.  [n.p.] 1968.  283p.  Divorce in Islamic law in Egypt and the Sudan.

Hirschon, Renée, ed.  Women and property--women as property.  New York, NY:  St.  Martin's Press, 1983.  222p.  Gender relations, Islamic law, East Africa, India, Portugal, Tuerkey, the exchange of women and property.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyah, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (d. 1350).  Ighathat al-lahfan fi hukm talaq al-ghadban.  [n.p.] 1969.  Editor al-Qasimi, Jamal al-Din (d. 1914).  47p.  Divorce and Islamic law.

Ibn Taymiyah, Ahmad ibn `Abd al-Halim (1263-1328).  Risalat al-Ijtima` wa-al-iftiraq fi al-half bi-al-talaq.  `Aziziyah, Makkah:  Maktabat al-Manarah, 1988.  111p.  Islamic law & divorce.

Ide, Arthur Frederick.  The Qur'an on woman, marriage, birth control, and divorce.  Las Colinas, TX:  Tangelwüld, 1996.  81p.

Jamil, Mohammad.  Marriage and dissolution of marriage in Muslim law (with a commentary on the Dissolution of Muslim marriages act).  Lahore, India:  Indian law agencies, 1942.  189p.

Jamil, Mohammad.  Marriage and dissolution of marriage in Muslim law, being a commentary on the Dissolution of Muslim marriage act.  Lahore, India:  Law Book Co., 1946.  189p.

Jones, Gavin W.  Marriage and divorce in Islamic South-East Asia.  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;  New York, NY:  Oxford University Press, 1994.  348p.  Marriage & divorce law & customs in Asia & esp. Malaysia.

Jones, Gavin W.  Marriage and divorce in Islamic South-East Asia.  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;  New York, NY:  Oxford University Press, 1994.  348p.  Marriage & divorce law & customs in Asia & esp. Malaysia.

Julaydi, Sa`id Muhammad.  Ahkam al-usrah fi al-zawaj wa-al-talaq wa-atharihima:  dirasah fiqhiyah muqaranah, ma`a sharh wa-ta`liqat `alá al-Qanun raqm 10 li-sanat 1984 M.  Misratah, al-Jamahiriyah al-`Arabiyah al-Libiyah al-Sha`biyah al-Ishtirakiyah al-`Uzmá:  al-Dar al-Jamahiriyah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi` wa-al-I`lan, 1986.  359p.  Marriage & divorce law in Libya.

Krishna Iyer, V. R. Justice.  V. R. Krishna Iyer on the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986.  Lucknow, India:  Eastern Book Co., 1987.  143p.

Lahore, Sh.  Muhammad Ashraf.  Book of Islam.  Rev. ed.  [n.p.] 1964.  5 volumes.  Volume 5 on marriage, divorce & sex.

Madhava, Anand, & Mirza Kazim Husain.  Marriage and dissolution of marriage in Muslim law, with a commentary on the Dissolution of Muslim marriages act.  Lucknow, India:  Eastern Book Co., 1950.  127p.

Maghniyah, Muhammad Jawad.  al-Zawaj wa-al-talaq `ala al-madhahib al-khamsah.  [n.p.] 1960.  199p.

Maitra, Sunil.  Muslim Women's Act:  deathknell of secularism.  New Delhi, India:  Communist Party of India (Marxist):  Distributed by National Book Centre, 1986.  72p.

Maraghi, `Abd Allah.  al-Zawaj wa-al-talaq fi jami` al-adyan.  al-Jumhuriyah al-`Arabiyah al-Muttahidah:  al-Majlis al-A`lá lil-Shu'un al-Islamiyah, 1966.  639p.  Divorce in Islamic history.

Markhani, Mohammado, & Y. L. M. Mansoor, eds.  The Muslim marriage and divorce law reports;  containing cases decided by the Board of Quazis, the Supreme Court of Ceylon and Her Majesty the Queen in Her Privy Council on appeal from the Supreme Court of Ceylon, and articles on marriage and divorce and other connected matters, with a digest.  Editor in chief: Colombo, Sri Lanka:  Govt. Publications Bureau, 1962-65.  2 volumes.

Muhsini, Mahmud.  Tahrir ai-istidlal fi Kitab al-talaq.  [n.p.] 1973.  559p.  Divorce & Islamic law.

Qadri, Anwar Ahmad.  Muslim law of marriage, divorce, and maintenance:  being a revised and enlarged version of A. A. Qadri's commentary on the dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939.   2nd ed.  Revised by Vijay Malik.  Lucknow, India:  Eastern Book Co., 1988.  175p.

Qureshi, Mohammed Ahmad.  Muslim law of marriage, divorce, and maintenance.  Foreword by Paras Diwan.  New Delhi:  Deep & Deep Publications, 1992.  455p.

Qurra`ah, `Ali.  Fiqh al Qur`an wa al sunnah fi mawdu` al talaq fial-Islam.  [n.p.] 1956.  207p.

Rozen, Leon Szczekacz.  Marriage and divorce;  comparative reflections on marriage and divorce in the Mosaic law and in the present laws of domestic relations.  New York, NY:  United Jewish Religious Writers, 1961.  74p.

Sethi, Raghbirlal Bhagatram.  Muslim marriage and its dissolution;  being an exhaustive and critical exposition of Muslim law of marriage and its dissolution with a commentary on the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act (Act VIII of 1939) with up-to-date case-law.  2d ed.  Allahabad:  Law Book Co., 1961 & 1964.  271p.

Sewlani, Pratap.  The Muslim women:  Protection of Rights on Divorce Act, 1986 with rules and full text of judgments.  Jalgaon, India:  Universal Law House, 1992.  268p.

Sha`ban, Zaki al-Din.  Zawaj wa-al-talaq fi al-Islam.  [n.p.] 1964.  120p.  Divorce & Islam.

Shafqat, C. M.  The Muslim marriage, dower & divorce.  Lahore, Pakistan:  Law Pub. Co., 1979.  226p.

Shakir, Ahmad Muhammad.  Nizam al-talaq fi al-Islam.  [n.p.] 1936.  143p.  1969, 144p.  Divorce in Islamic law.

Shaukat Ali, Zeenat.  Marriage and divorce in Islam, an appraisal.  Bombay, India:  Jaico Pub. House, 1987.  264p.  With a discussion of Islamic law in India.  Originally presented as the author's Ph. D. thesis, University of Bombay.

Shukri, Ahmed.  Muhammedan law of marriage and divorce.  Ph.D. Thesis.  New York, NY:  Columbia University Press, 1917  126p.

Sircar, Shama Churun.  The Muhammadan law:  being a digest of the Sunní code in part and of the Imámiyah code.  Calcutta, India:  Thacker, Spink and Co., 1875.  499p.  Inheritanc, succession, marriage & divorce in Islamic law in India.

Sonbol, Amira El Azhary, ed.  Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history.  Foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press, 1996.  357p.

Sonbol, Amira El Azhary, ed.  Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history.  Foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press, 1996.  357p.

Subzwari, Arshad.  The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986:  with rules.  Allahabad, India:  Law Vision, 1996.  196p.

Tariq, Bashir.  Legal remedies in Islam.  Lahore, Pakastan:  Irfan Law Book House:  Khyber Law Publishers, 1994.  1140p.  Woman, marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriages, parentage and illegitimacy, maintenance, dower, succession, inheritance, gift, guardianship, will & domestic relations in Pakistan.

The Bengal Muhammadan marriages and divorces registration act, 1876, as modified up to the 20th May, 1935.  Alipore, Bengal:  Superintendent, government printing, Bengal government press, 1935.  14p.

Vahidi, Qudrat Allah.  Talaq.  [n.p.] c1968.  419p.