Muslim law in Sri Lanka
Muslim law in Sri Lanka is one of three customary laws which is applicable to Sri Lankans who are Muslims by virtue of birth and conversion to Islam. The other two customary laws are Kandyan law and Thesavalamai. It is different from Islamic law and governs aspects of marriage, divorce custody and maintenance, having been included in the Act No. 13 of 1951 Marriage and Divorce (Muslim) Act, the Act No. 10 of 1931 Muslim Intestate Succession Ordinance and the Act No. 51 of 1956 Muslim Mosques and Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Act.[1]
Criticism
Underage marriages
The Sri Lankan Muslim law has been criticized as it allows the marriage of Muslim girls under the age of 18, which is the common legal marriage age. Activists have called on amending the laws.[2]
Polygamy
Polygamy is allowed under sections 24 (1)- 24 (4) of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act of 1951. As such a man can marry up to four women, provided that he can treat them equally. [3]
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- Kandyan Constitution
- Donoughmore Constitution (1931)
- Soulbury Constitution (1947)
- Republican Constitution (1972)
- 1997 Draft Constitution (1997)
- 2000 Draft Constitution (2000)
- Constitution
- Proposed Constitution
- Acts of the Parliament
- Kandyan law
- Thesavalamai
- Muslim law
- Roman-Dutch law
- English law
- Kandyan independence movement (1470s)
- Crisis of the Sixteenth Century (1505–1594)
- Wijayaba Kollaya (1521)
- Sinhalese–Portuguese War (1527–1658)
- Portuguese conquest of Jaffna (1560–1619)
- Fall of Kotte (1597)
- British invasion of Ceylon (1795)
- Kandyan Wars (1796–1818)
- American Ceylon Mission (1813)
- Kandyan Convention (1815)
- Sri Lankan independence movement (1817–1948)
- Great Rebellion of 1817–18 (1817–1818)
- Colebrooke-Cameron Commission (1829)
- Matale rebellion (1848)
- Temperance movement (1895)
- 1915 Ceylonese riots (1915)
- Ceylon National Congress (1919)
- Jaffna Youth Congress (1924)
- Donoughmore Commission (1927)
- Suriya-Mal Movement (1933–1939)
- Bracegirdle Incident (1937)
- Cocos Islands mutiny (1942)
- Soulbury Commission (1944)
- Independence Day (1948)
- Ceylon Citizenship Act (1948)
- State-sponsored colonisation schemes (1950s–2000s)
- 1953 Ceylonese Hartal (1953)
- Nehru-Kotelawala Pact (1954)
- Sinhala Only Act (1956)
- 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom (1956)
- Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact (1957)
- 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom (1958)
- Coup d'état attempt (1962)
- Sirima–Shastri Pact (1964)
- Alleged coup d'état attempt (1966)
- Policy of standardisation (1971)
- 1971 JVP insurrection (1971)
- Republic Day (1972)
- Sirima–Gandhi Pact (1974)
- Vaddukoddai Resolution (1976)
- 1977 Sri Lankan riots (1977)
- Burning of Jaffna Public Library (1981)
- Black July (1983)
- Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)
- Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (1987)
- 1987 anti-Sinhalese riots (1987)
- 1987–1989 JVP insurrection (1987–1989)
- Mawanella riots (2001)
- 2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka (2014)
- Alleged coup d'état attempt (2015)
- 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka (2018)
- 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis (2018)
- 2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka (2019)
- 2022 Sri Lankan protests (2022)
- 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis (2022)
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