Rather than holding on to them for personal use, Muslim elites often endowed these Qur'ans to particular religious institutions such as mosques, madrasas or mausoleums.
In each individual journey, simultaneously congregational and personal, each Muslim experiences something akin to their fellow believers, while also something intensely private.
Although the Indian Constitution guarantees equal rights to all citizens irrespective of their religion, Muslims are governed by the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act of 1937.
He contended she was entitled to a maintenance allowance for only 3 months as prescribed by Muslim personal law.
Muslim personal law is merely a variation in application of Indian constitutional guarantees with the supreme court at its apex.
The council for the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Huzefa Ahmadi, quoted the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent in Lawrence v.
"This report is misleading, vague, self-contradictory and concocted," said Sayeed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, a spokesman for the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which opposes the building of a temple.
A government ban on triple talaq will be opposed by clerics and conservative organisations, such as the powerful All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Its chiefly male membership of clerics and scholars has rejected proposals to change Muslim personal law, and is opposing a demand by women's groups that marriages be legally registered, as is mandatory for non-Muslims.
"For one, we don't want the government to interfere in matters of Muslim personal law and for another, triple talaq is permitted under the hadith [the prophet Muhammad's sayings]," he said.
