by Moiz Tundawala Judicial divorce for Muslim women in the Indian subcontinent In 1931, Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi,, a renown Sufi scholar of the Indian subcontinent, issued a fatwa holding that apostasy did not annul a Muslim marriage, and that a woman experiencing hardships in marriage was entitled to seek judicial separation. But interestingly, evident … Continue reading A Pragmatist’s Take on Legal Change in the Islamic Tradition