- “The Supreme Court [of India] [is set to] examine a 2021 ruling of the Kerala High Court affirming a Muslim woman’s right to pronounce extrajudicial divorce by way of ‘khula.'”
- “The development of Islamic banking in the Philippines aims to benefit all Filipinos,” the central bank of the Philippines recently stated.
- The Federal Court in Malaysia has announced that it would take up the case of a women originally of the Hindu faith, who alleges she was unilaterally converted when still a child by her mother.
- Responding to a question regarding same-sex marriages, Malaysia‘s Minister of Religious Affairs Datuk Mohd Na’im Mokhtar recently stated: “As long as the marriage is valid under Islamic law, which is between a man and a woman, then the marriage can be registered.”
- “The Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has urged the government to increase more positions and recruitment more people in order to ease the management under the halal certification department.”
- “Providing basic rights for Afghans in the framework of the constitution will lead to political stability in the country, in the meantime, providing women and girls with the right to education in accordance with Islamic law will strengthen the potential of internal legitimacy,” a participant commented at the Academy of Science of Afghanistan (ASA) seminar recently held in Kabul, Afghanistan. For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.”