Muslim Marriage Contracts: Website Launch
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Title: Muslim Marriage Contracts: Website Launch
Speakers: Mufti Barkatulla , Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, and Cassandra Balchin
Date: 1 Jul 2011 at 18:45
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, W1H 4LP
Event details:
Marriage is one of the most serious commitments a person makes in their life. Islam recognises it as a strong covenant between the engaging parties and Islamic rules provide protection for both men and women. Muslim marriage contracts have been created to allow those getting married to have an agreed record of their union and its conditions.
A new website on Muslim marriage contracts is being launched this week. It seeks to raise debate and offer some suggested answers on important questions facing Muslim communities in Britain today: what does the law in England, Wales & Scotland say about the validity of marriages? What does Islamic law say about Muslim marriage and marriage contracts? What are the practices and laws in other Muslim countries and communities? What steps can be taken to ensure stable and loving marriages?
Those who have developed the website are offering it as a way of facilitating discussion within the community on these important issues, and do not claim they have all the answers.
The website can be visited on this address http://muslimmarriagecontract.org.
The speakers:
Mufti Barkatulla is a senior Imam and Lecturer on Islamic Finance at a Community College. Trained extensively both in traditional Islamic and modern Western educational institutions, he has served UK Muslims as a community worker and as a qazi at Islamic Sharia Council, London. He has developed Islamic Sharia information databases on CD-ROM and recently hosted live phone-in shows on community tv channels. He is a member of the Sharia supervisory boards of several institutions including Islamic Bank of Britain and LloydsTSB. He maintains the Islamic Helpline.
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is a Muslim activist, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim political thought. A champion of female empowerment, he campaigns against forced marriage, domestic violence and murder in the name of honour. Together with senior clerics, he launched a Muslim marriage contract to protect the rights of women. He is co-author of a report on and campaigns against child abuse within faith-based environments. Dr Siddiqui has promoted dialogue and engagement across all barriers: social, cultural and political. He is a founder trustee of the Muslim Institute.
Cassandra Balchin is currently the Chair of the Muslim Women’s Network UK. She is an independent consultant on gender, law and religion and has researched and published widely on Muslim family laws. She is part of Musawah, the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family and worked with Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Centre in Lahore for many years, also contributing to trainings for grassroots paralegals.
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