아프리카ㆍ중동

Law shapes everyday life of ordinary people and their relations through governing both material and psychological rights and duties 'of' and 'among' people. Therefore, it is significant to analyse law of a country as it suggests the answer to the people at the time of decision in every day life. It is especially true in the case of family law since it rules decisions not only of individuals but also of families with regard to binding and breaking of social relations through marriage and divorce. This is a comparative study of the project that examines 'Islamic Family Law, Possibilities of Reform from a Women's Rights Perspective, A Study through Changes of the Family Law in Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey'. The aim of the study is to explore how ordinary Muslims in each country recognize Islamic family law in everyday life and how they practice it. The target group of this study is at least 100 of each female and male married Muslim from middle- and upper-class in each country and they were approached by snowball sampling except Turkey where the target group was approached randomly in a big Supermarket in Ankara. The questionnaire consists mainly with three parts: marriage, divorce, and possibilities of reform in the family law. Among the three major issues, this paper will largely focus on the analysis of 'divorce part' and it deals with reasons of divorce, amount of deferred mahr and its payment at the time of divorce, problems following divorce, women's right to divorce, and parental rights after divorce.