Family Laws in Pakistan

Muhammad Zubair Abbasi, Assistant Pr ofessor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Assistant Professor, University Law College, University of the Punjab

Dr Muhammad Zubair Abbasi is an Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He completed DPhil at Oxford University, LL.M (Corporate Governance) at Manchester University, and B.A LL.B (Hons) at International Islamic University Islamabad. He practiced law for several years before joining the academia. He has published widely in the fields of Islamic family law and corporate law. His main area of interest lies in organisational law which intersects various institutions such as family, corporations, trusts, markets, and states.

Trained as a lawyer and legal historian, Dr Abbasi has conducted path-breaking research on the formation of Muslim Personal Law in British India. His current research project explores the contribution of the Federal Shariat Court and the Shariat Appellate Bench, Supreme Court in the application, and development of Islamic Jurisprudence. He is the Chief Editor of the LUMS Law Journal and the Pakistan Editor for the Harvard Law School project Sharia Source.

Dr Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema is an Assistant Professor, University Law College, University of the Punjab. He completed PhD at University of Warwick, UK, LL.M at University Law College, University of the Punjab, and B.A LL.B (Hons) at International Islamic University, Islamabad. He has been teaching at the University of the Punjab for the past seventeen years. In addition to authoring a book titled Islamic Inheritance Law: Practices in Pakistan published by Shariah Academy of International Islamic University, Islamabad, Dr Cheema has published numerous research articles on Islamic law and law of Evidence.

Foreword
Preface
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Terminology
1. Introduction
PART I: Marriage: Formation, Operation, and Dissolution
2. Marriage
3. Dower and Dowry
4. Maintenance of Wife and Children
5. Dissolution of Marriage
PART II: Children's Rights
6. Parentage and Legitimacy
7. Guardianship, Custody, and Welfare of Minors
PART III: Personal Property
8. Gifts
9. Waqf
10. Wills
11. Inheritance Law
PART IV
12. Personal Law of non-Muslims
13. Conflict of Personal Laws
14. Procedures in Family Courts
15. Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix: Updated Annotated Statuses
Bibliography
Index