Puberty, Guardianship and Consent: Classical Fiqh in Contemporary Pakistani Debates on Child Marriage.
Child marriage in Pakistan is routinely framed as a collision between immutable 'classical Islamic law' and 'modern human rights'. This review article challenges that binary by advancing a precise argument: the operative dispute is a contest over interpretive authority—who holds the institutional an...
| Published in: | Religion Compass Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 1 - 12 |
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| Format: | Literature Review |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2026
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |