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| | Palestine |
 | | The Palestinian territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip are that part of Palestine not included in the territory on which the state of Israel was established in 1948. |
 | | Schools of Fiqh: The Hanafi school is the predominant madhhab in Palestine, as well as in Jordan and Egypt, the states whose legislation continues to govern personal status in the West Bank and Gaza, respectively. |
 | | Background and Sources: El Alami and Hinchcliffe, Islamic Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Arab World, London, 1996; Welchman, "Family Law under Occupation: Islamic Law and the Shari'a Courts of the West Bank," in Islamic Family Law, Mallat and Connors, eds., London, 1990; Welchman, Islamic Family Law: Text and Practice in Palestine, Jerusalem (WCLAC) 1999. |
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