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Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions (2025)
Thesis
Al-Saai, N. Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gulf state laws benefit from religion and custom as sources of legitimacy, particularly when state law’s provisions are based on or similar to them. For example, Arab states sometimes justify their nationality laws, which allow males only to transmit... Read More about Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions.

Forum-Shopping and Choice of Law in Intra-sect and Inter-sect Muslim Family Disputes in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar (2025)
Journal Article
Al-Saai, N. (online). Forum-Shopping and Choice of Law in Intra-sect and Inter-sect Muslim Family Disputes in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. Arab Law Quarterly, 1-47. https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10189

The plurality of opinions that Sharīʿah affords has ensured justice for different groups and disputants in pre-modern times. Although this plurality had been limited by modern state codifications, forum-shopping and choice of applicable Muslim rules... Read More about Forum-Shopping and Choice of Law in Intra-sect and Inter-sect Muslim Family Disputes in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar.