The Muslim Family Law Index (MFL-I)

measures the extent to which Muslim Family Laws (MFLs) comply with specific human/women’s rights and the rule of law and standards. The MFL-I assigns country/year scores ranging from 0 to 100. The higher the score, the more reformed the national MFL system; hence greater adherence to human/women’s rights and the rule of law.

Publications

Below is a list of publications that utilize the MFL-I dataset. If you know any publications using the MFL-I and its sub-indices not listed on this page, please notify us by e-mail.

Sezgin, Yüksel. “A Global and Historical Exploration: Legislative Reform in Muslim Family Laws in Muslim-majority versus Muslim-minority Countries,” Law & Policy, 2023, 45:110–136, https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12210
Sezgin, Yüksel. “Muslim Family Law Reform: Understanding the Difference between Muslim-Majority and Muslim-Minority Jurisdictions,” Journal of Law, Religion and State, 2023, 1-34, https://doi.org/10.1163/22124810-20230004
Sezgin, Yüksel (2024, October 9). The Muslim family law reform: Exploring cross-national and historical differences. Canopy Forum. https://canopyforum.org/2024/10/09/the-muslim-family-law-reform-exploring-cross-national-and-historical-differences/
Sezgin, Yüksel. “Muslim Family Laws, Human Rights and Women’s Rights, 1945-2016” in Human Rights, the Family and Internationalism since the Nineteenth Century (ed. Julia Moses), Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, 197-228, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85366-1_8