im_not_a_rapper on Nostr: "In the book, 'The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians Of Change', which is a ...

"In the book, 'The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians Of Change', which is a book written by Muhammad Qasim Zaman, the book says: 'In British India, until 1939, while apostasy was recognised as valid grounds for the dissolution of the marriage contract, as Hanafi law maintained, it was not considered the court's function to force the wife to reconvert to Islam and remarry her former spouse—as the Hanafis also required. Consequently, a number of Muslim women, especially in the Punjab, apostatised in order to rid themselves of undesirable husbands.'"