nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/60792efdfb72e22c DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240926s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/60792efdfb72e22c doi eng 342 23 Firozui Mandomi, Faraz Author aut Iraq’s Lost Century - Proposal to Amend Personal Status Law Threatens Hard-won Progress Firozui Mandomi, Faraz Verfassungsblog 2024-09-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Shia religious authorities, in collaboration with their political allies in the Iraqi parliament, seek to redefine Iraq’s personal status law according to religious rules. On July 29, the largest bloc in Iraq’s parliament, introduced a controversial bill to amend the Personal Status Law of 1959. This proposed amendment would mandate that Iraqis, upon marriage, choose either Shia or Sunni jurisprudence to govern all personal status-related matters within their marriage. This change creates legal uncertainty by replacing predictable, codified law with premodern, uncodified Islamic jurisprudence. Moreover, it disproportionately affects women, especially by facilitating early marriages. CC BY-SA 4.0 Iraq Iraq (Territory under Mandate) Personal Status Law Shia and Sunni jurisprudence early marriages (DE-588)5118603-2 gnd Iraq (Territory under Mandate) Majeed Qader, Dhahir Author aut Yasin Husein Kokha, Ayad Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/iraq-lost-century/ raw object