The actual Muslim wedding is known as a nikah. It is a simple ceremony, at which the bride does not have to be present so long as she sends two witnesses to the drawn-up agreement. Normally, the ...

In the consolidated appeals of Nouri v. Dadgar and Ghazirad v. Mojarrad, 245 Md. App. 324 (2020), the Court of Special Appeals enunciated a new stringent standard to apply to enforcement of an ...

(RNS) — Nushmia Khan was tired of seeing Muslim couples treat their sacred marriage contracts as boring legalese. So last month, she launched a small business to help bring decorative keepsake Islamic ...

Should anything go wrong in her marriage, Zaynab Abdul-Razacq is confident her rights will be well-protected. Her husband has guaranteed it — in writing. The young Muslim couple chose a path advocated ...

After criticizing Muslim clerics in India for treating wives unfairly in disputes with their husbands, one activist is distributing a new marriage contract. Couples are slowly signing on. LUCKNOW, ...

Muslim marriage contracts include a provision called mahr, which American courts have misconstrued to be prenuptial agreements. Recently, the New Jersey Superior Court, in Odatalla v. Odatalla, ...

CISAAT, Indonesia — Her first contract marriage was to a tourist from Saudi Arabia. He was in his 50s, and she was 17. They wed in a small ceremony in a guest room at a three-star hotel in Jakarta ...

NEW YORK — Should anything go wrong in her marriage, Zaynab Abdul-Razacq is confident her rights will be well-protected. Her husband has guaranteed it — in writing. The young Muslim couple chose a ...

In a small town north of Cairo, an Egyptian woman has quietly made history by becoming the first female marriage official in the Muslim world. Although the job is clerical rather than religious — not ...

I’m taking contracts this semester, and if I’ve learned anything—and I have because Professor Asimow is awesome—it’s: put everything in writing and, though no one does it, please, please, please read ...

From Nouri v. Dadgar (Md. Ct. Spec. App. Apr. 7): These two cases, consolidated for purposes of this opinion, present the same issue of first impression in Maryland: May a civil court adjudicating a ...