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work_accrpf4i4jh3lcdrzpqcmaobmq	Justin Jones	Towards a Muslim Family Law Act? Debating Muslim women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India	2019	15	.pdf	application/pdf	9743	639	52	Debating Muslim women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India, Contemporary South Asia, DOI: In 2014, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA, or 'Indian Muslim Women's Movement') published the first draft of a document that has come to define its agenda: The Muslim Family Law Act. The Act opens with the statement that, across the world including Muslim-majority states, 'new legal Samaj in 1970, a Muslim socio-political organisation that pressed for the legal prohibition of contentious Muslim family laws and the move towards a common civil code (Haygunde 2017; Guha 2011, in the wider Islamic world; the prior codification of Hindu family law in India; and the weight of significant Muslim community support for reform, might all have incurred legislative intervention. wholesale legislative overhaul of Muslim personal laws advocated by women's activists in earlier generations, arguing that such initiatives might foster social division and lack support within the community.	./cache/work_accrpf4i4jh3lcdrzpqcmaobmq.pdf	./txt/work_accrpf4i4jh3lcdrzpqcmaobmq.txt