Sharia in India

divorce performed by a husband saying the word talaq to his wife thrice, widespread among South Asian Muslims

Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum & Ors. (1985), commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a criminal lawsuit in India, in which the Supreme Court delivered a judgment in favour of providing maintenance (alimony) to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman, Shah Bano Begum from Indore, who had been divorced by her husband Mohammed Ahmed Khan in 1978.

Islamic edict book

organization

set of laws that govern Muslims in India