혼인에 관한 이집트인들의 인식과 실천

Abstract

This paper is the second part of the project that examines ‘Islamic Family Law, Possibilities of Reform from a Women's Rights Perspective - A Study through Changes of the Family Law in Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, and Turkey. Whereas the fieldwork of the first year focuses on interviews with Muslim intellectuals in Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, and Morocco in order to examine whether there would be any possibilities of reform in the family law in each country, the fieldwork of the second year focuses on the ordinary Muslims who are living in the urban area in each country. The target group is 100 of each female and male married Muslims from middle- and upper- class, and the period of the fieldwork covers from January 2005 to February 2005. Quantitative research method with snowball sampling was used to collect data and SPSS program was used for data analysis. The research aims to explore how ordinary Muslims in Egypt recognize Islamic Family Law including marriage and divorce in everyday life and how they practice it. The questionnaire consists mainly with three parts: marriage, divorce, and possibilities of reform in the family law. Among the three issues, however, the paper will mainly focuses on analysis of marriage part and it includes how Muslims choose their spouse, the amount of prepaid mahr and its significances, and polygany marriage.