Inshallah a Boy

إن شاء الله ولد

Amjad Al-Rasheed's Jordanian film about a widow fighting inheritance law to keep her home and daughter; first Jordanian film in Cannes competition.

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Review
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WomenLaw and courts

Screening Room

Format
Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released
2023 CE · 1444 AH†
Countries
JO
Approach
drama of Muslim life

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Overview

A Jordanian film by Amjad Al Rasheed about a widow who fights the inheritance law to keep her house and daughter; the first Jordanian film in competition at Cannes. 1 2

People and things also explored

Nikaah· Obstructing a marriage (adl): the guardian and the husband· Fleshy growth in the wife's womb and the right to annul (afal)· Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm· Secularism and Islam — conflict or concord· The Arab woman and the international conventions

Sources

  1. Wikidata
  2. IMDb
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