A Review of the book – Women Claiming Rights and
Spaces: Activism to Reform Muslim Personal Law in Sri Lanka, Published
by Muslim Women Research and Action Forum.
Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in Sri Lanka that governs the family
affairs of the Muslims which specifically includes marriage, divorce and
inheritance and exclusively applicable to the Muslims is supplementary
to the general law of the country. There are such supplementary family
laws like Kandyan Law and Thesavalamai Law that governs the family affairs of Kandyan Sinhalese and Jaffna Tamils respectively. Read more>>>
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