All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board

All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board
Formation 2005 (2005)
President
 Shaista Amber

The All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) .[1] is an organisation constituted in 2005 to adopt strategies for the protection and continued applicability of Muslim Personal Law in India, with a particular focus on women's issues, including marriage, divorce, and other legal rights.

Description

The AIMWPLB consists of a 30-person executive board and is led by president Shaista Ambar. The AIMWPLB received limited coverage by the Indian media in March 2008 when it released a 12-page "Sharai Nikahnama".[2] which sought to offer India's Muslim women a religiously-sanctioned alternative to conventional Islamic marriage contracts. The Nikhahnama is, according to the AIMWPLB applicable to Sunnis and Shi'a and is available in both Hindi and Urdu.

The president of AIMWPLB is Shaista Amber.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Brief Introduction All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board".
  2. ↑ "Sharai Nikahnama".
  3. ↑ "Triple talaq: UP government to seek opinion of Muslim women", Hindustan Times, 15 April 2017

Further reading

  • Jones, Justin (2009), "'Signs of churning': Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India", Modern Asian Studies, 44 (1): 175, doi:10.1017/S0026749X09990114, hdl:10871/8922, ISSN 0026-749X
  • Vatuk, Sylvia (2007), "Islamic Feminism in India: Indian Muslim Women Activists and the Reform of Muslim Personal Law", Modern Asian Studies, 42 (2–3), doi:10.1017/S0026749X07003228, ISSN 0026-749X
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