Mohammedan Law
The Ohio Bangladesh telephonic wedding case I blogged about below mentioned “Mohammedan law,” which struck me as unusual and archaic; and indeed a Google Ngrams search supports this. You can click on the image below to enlarge, but basically the red line is for “Islamic law,” the dark blue is for “Sharia law,” and the light blue is for “Mohammedan law,” which started in the lead around 1920 but is now very uncommon. (“Mahometan law” and “Mahomedan law,” as you might gather, are even more unusual; “Muhammadan law” is about as rare as “Mohammedan law.”)
There’s nothing, of course, inherently derogatory about naming religious law after a prophet rather than after the formal name of the religion or of the religious law within the religion—portions of Jewish law, for instance, have historically been called “Mosaic law.” But it’s no longer customary, much as it’s no longer customary to use “Hebrew” to refer to Jews as an ethnic group or a religion, though it was once quite normal, and is still reflected in the names of some synagogues and organizations, such as HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). And when such terms become archaic enough, people who hear them might wonder, “What does he mean by that?,” even in the absence of specific reason to think they are pejorative.
But while it’s no longer customary in America or in American law, as best I can tell, the term appears to be quite common (spelled “Mohammedan law,” “Muhammadan law,” or “Mahomedan law”) in the legal systems of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This may in turn stem from history, since many treatises have been so named; and because this has been such an important subject in those countries, the term seems to have stuck. And I take it that the Ohio court borrowed Bangladesh legal usage because that’s what the Bangladesh law sources (which it viewed as relevant to determining the legal rules applicable to a marriage between Bangladesh citizens, conducted by telephone when the wife was in Bangladesh) used.
The post Mohammedan Law appeared first on Reason.com.
Source: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/08/mohammedan-law/
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