On receipt of an application for registration, the Board may, before the registration of the waqf make such inquiries as it thinks fit in respect of the genuineness and validity of the application and correctness of any particulars therein...
Indian Muslim Law
Every State Government shall maintain a list of waqf referred to in sub-section (1) and the survey of waqf shall be completed within a period of one year from the date of commencement of the waqf (Amendment) Act, 2013,...
The reformation that transformed the intellectual landscape of Europe is dated from 1517. In 1515 the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, persuaded by the influential clerics of the realm, issued a decree that imposed the death penalty on anyone using...
provisions of the Code remain fully applicable to the Muslims, notwithstanding the controversy resulting from the Shah Bano case and the enactment of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on divorce) Act, 1986.
Dr. Tahir Mahmood in his book ‘Muslim Personal Law’ (1977 Edition, pages 200-202), has made a powerful plea for framing a uniform Civil Code for all citizens of India. He says .:
“In pursuance of the goal of secularism, the...
The right conferred by Section 125 can be exercised irrespective. of the personal law of the parties, is fortified, especially in regard to Muslims, by the provision contained in the Explanation to the second proviso to Section 125(3) of...
Sources of Muslim Law : (1) Quran (2) Sunna (3) Ijma (4) Quiyas. (5) Customs (Urf) (6) Judicial Precedents. (7) Legislation. (8) Good Conscience and Equity.
Doctrine of spes successionis- DATE :- Decided On: 02-08-2011 JT 2011 (8) SC 533 : (2011) 8 SCALE 186 (SUPREME COURT OF INDIA) Shehammal Appellant Versus Hasan Khani Rawther and Others Respondent (Before : Altamas Kabir, Cyriac Joseph and Surinder...
KEYWORDS:-Maintenance to Muslim wife- DATE:- 23-04-1985- whether the law of Islam is capable of evolution ? AIR 1985 SC 945 : (1985) 3 SCR 844 : (1985) 2 SCC 556 : (1985) 1 SCALE 767 : (1985) CriLJ SC 875...
Muslims Can Adopt Under Juvenile Law [Shabnam Hashmi Versus Union Of India & Ors 19.02. 2014] Triple talaq declared as null and void [Shayara Bano versus Union of India and others 22.08. 2017] Both S 125 of the Cr.P.C application & application u/s...