(Ebook) Muslim law in Modern India by Paras Diwan ISBN 9789380231198, 9380231199

(Ebook) Muslim law in Modern India by Paras Diwan ISBN 9789380231198, 9380231199

9788A write on Muslim law, in Modem India, is at once beset with theproblem of looking at Muslim law, which, to a great extent, still continues tobe based on the Koran, the sunna, the ijma and the Kiyas (though opinionsstill differ among the doctors of Muslim law as to how much Islamic law isindeed based on the kyas), objectively—how much of Muslim law is still basedon ancient sources and how much of it has been changed or mutated duringthe course of its administration by the British Indian courts and the PriyyCoimcil, and thereafter, and how much of it is in conformity with thecontemporary social needs and modem thought. The problem is not of merely saying that polygamy and talak are out-moded (even most Muslims agree that it is so), but of looking at the entire gamut of Muslim law more deeply an dispassionately. And, may be, in this task a non-Muslim student of Muslim Law has a better prospect of success. The other objective of writing this book is to provide a concise yet full account of Muslim personal law as it isadministered in modem India.