NEW YOR — 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 ...

Many young Muslims see Islamic marriage contracts as 14th Century relics to be signed and forgotten. Now their leaders are urging them to consider the contracts’ potential for ensuring marital bliss ...

Muslim marriage is a contract, not a sacrament. Though it has importance as the only religiously sanctioned way for individuals to have legitimate sexual relationships and to procreate (now that slave ...

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 ...

(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 ...

New York courts have reluctantly passed upon the enforcement of religious marriage contracts. The restrictions of the First Amendment constrain state courts from limiting the free exercise of religion ...

I have two master’s degrees from Columbia, keep the h silent in haute couture (you’d be surprised at how few Pakistanis like me do so), and know to scour the fine print before I sign anything. But I ...

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 ...

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 ...

In New Jersey’s first substantive decision on Islamic Law, a Passaic County judge ruled last Monday that a religious, dowry-style contract signed by two Muslims at their marriage is enforceable upon ...