Treatment of childhood and children's rights in Islamic law with special attention to Māliki law and al-Andalus
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children, childhood, Islamic law, mālikī law, al-Andalus, orphans, abandoned children, education, protection of children.
Abstract
Study of some of the fundamental aspects on the rights that the mālikī legal system applied in Andalus provides for children at different developmental stages of childhood, even before birth, both in terms of material wealth and as the emotional and psychological. Among others, attention is lent to the rights of custody (ḥaḍāna), trusteeship exercised by the father or another (wālī), the protection of minors and special protection of orphans and abandoned children.Downloads
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2015-08-03
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Vidal-Castro F. (2015). Treatment of childhood and children’s rights in Islamic law with special attention to Māliki law and al-Andalus. Anaquel de Estudios Árabes, 27, 201-238. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ANQE.2016.v27.48303
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