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...

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Published in:Religion Compass Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 1 - 12
Main Author: Akhtar, Jamil
Format: Literature Review
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2026
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