{"id":7238,"date":"2020-02-19T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2021-04-18T18:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:07:58","slug":"uk-court-sharia-marriages-not-valid-under-english-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/02\/19\/uk-court-sharia-marriages-not-valid-under-english-law\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Court: Sharia Marriages Not Valid Under English Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/02\/19\/uk-court-sharia-marriages-not-valid-under-english-law\/uk-sharia-marriages\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7239\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/uk-sharia-marriages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/uk-sharia-marriages.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/uk-sharia-marriages-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Court of Appeal, the second highest court in England and Wales after the Supreme Court, has ruled that the Islamic marriage contract, known as nikah in Arabic, is not valid under English law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>UK Court: Sharia Marriages Not Valid Under English Law<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15623\/britain-sharia-marriages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | February 19, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal, the second highest court in England and Wales after the Supreme Court, has ruled that the Islamic marriage contract, known as <em>nikah <\/em>in Arabic, is not valid under English law.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark ruling has far-reaching implications. On the one hand, the decision strikes a blow against efforts to enshrine this aspect of Sharia law into the British legal system. On the other hand, it leaves potentially thousands of Muslim women in Britain without legal recourse in the case of divorce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15623\/britain-sharia-marriages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal, the second highest court in England and Wales after the Supreme Court, has ruled that the Islamic marriage contract, known as nikah in Arabic, is not valid under English law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48],"tags":[180,133,181,134],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-islam-in-europe","tag-britain","tag-cultural-integration","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-sharia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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