Jamal Jamil Ahmad Nasir CVO is a lawyer and the former minister of justice in

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

. He is a specialist in the rights of women under

Islamic law Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' refers to immutable, intan ...

Career

Nasir was admitted to the bar as a barrister of

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. In 1955 he received his PhD from the

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, University of London, for a thesis on the subject of "The doctrine of Kafa'a according to the early Islamic authorities and modern practice, with a critical edition of the Zaidi MS Al-mir'at al-mubayyina lil nazir ma huwa al-haqq fi mas'alat al-kafa'a". He is the former minister of justice in Jordan. He has written two books on aspects of Islamic law formerly poorly covered in the English language.

Selected publications

* ''The Islamic law of personal status''. Graham & Trotman, London, 1986. (2nd 1990, 3rd revised Kluwer 2001) * ''The status of women under Islamic law and under modern Islamic legislation''. Graham & Trotman, London, 1990. (2nd 1994, 3rd Brill 2009) * ''Israeli occupation and the law of belligerency: The case for justice, morality and human rights''. Jamal J.A. Nasir, Amman, 2010. * Under My Wig' by Dr Jamal Nasir.. Published by Gilgamesh Publishing 2013

References

20th-century Jordanian lawyers Legal writers Members of the Senate of Jordan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Muslim writers Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Alumni of SOAS University of London {{Jordan-bio-stub