Family Cases in Saharan Society: Marriage and Divorce as a Model — A Social Maqasid Study

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Al-Khalil ibn Abd al-Wadud Ikhneibila examines family life in Bidhan society and the Moroccan Sahara at the meeting point of tribal custom, the higher objectives of Islamic law, and modern legislation. From Fatiha marriages and cross-border alliances to marital conflict, absence, and divorce, the study documents quiet but far-reaching changes within the family. Combining jurisprudential, social, and anthropological perspectives, it asks how justice and mercy can be preserved when inherited norms encounter contemporary realities. The result is a serious reappraisal of family, custom, and freedom in a rapidly changing desert society.