PI: Yüksel Sezgin, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Grant Amount and Grant Fund: $2,200 William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies
Project Abstract: There are 53 countries (35 Muslim-, 18 non-Muslim-majority) in the world that formally integrate Muslim Family Laws (MFLs) into their national legal systems. much spatio-temporal variation in understanding and interpretation of women’s rights and human rights under religious laws across these nations. The Muslim Family Law Index (MFL-I) aims to capture this spatio-temporal diversity and measure human/women’s rights compliance and the rule of law-friendliness of shari‘a-inspired family law systems for the period of 1919-2016. The Centennial Center Grant will be used to build a website to share with scholars, policymakers, and general public the project findings and a large body of literature collected by the research team.