Publications of Dörthe Engelcke

Engelcke, D.: Reforming Family Law – Social and Political Change in Jordan and Morocco. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2019), XVI + 270 pp.

Engelcke, D.: Jordan. In: Encyclopedia of Law and Religion, Vol. 3: Asia, pp. 180 - 186 (Eds. Robbers, G.; Durham, W. C.). Brill Nijhoff, Leiden (2016)

Engelcke, D.: Christianity and Law in the Middle East Today. In: The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law, pp. 282 - 296 (Eds. Witte, J.; Domingo, R.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2023)

Engelcke, D.: Islamic family law. In: Handbook on Women in the Middle East, pp. 161 - 172 (Eds. Suad, J.; Zaatari, Z.). Routledge, Oxford (2022)

Engelcke, D.; Krell, D.; Yassari, N.: Die Frühehe in ausgewählten islamischen Ländern. In: Die Frühehe im Recht – Praxis, Rechtsvergleich, Kollisionsrecht, höherrangiges Recht, pp. 269 - 313 (Eds. Yassari, N.; Michaels, R.). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (2021)

Engelcke, D.: Jordan. In: Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children – Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions, pp. 135 - 164 (Eds. Yassari, N.; Möller, L.-M.; Najm, M.-C.). Asser Press, Den Haag (2019)

Engelcke, D.: Family Law Reform in Algeria. In: Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary?, pp. 308 - 330 (Eds. Gray, D. H.; Sonneveld, N.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2018)

Engelcke, D.: Jordan. In: Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries, pp. 121 - 143 (Eds. Yassari, N.; Möller, L.-M.; Gallala-Arndt, I.). Asser Press, Den Haag (2017)

Engelcke, D.: The application of the Byzantine Family Code in the Greek Orthodox Courts in Jordan today: constructing gender relations. In: Between Morocco and Indonesia and beyond, Essays in honour of Irene Schneider, pp. 139 - 158. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (2024)

Engelcke, D.; Krell, D.; Yassari, N.: Underage Marriage: Legal and Social Practice in Muslim Jurisdictions. Arab Law Quarterly (2025)

Engelcke, D.: Between Church and State: The Challenges of Reforming the Church Courts and Family Law in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. International Journal of Middle East Studies, pp. 282 - 301 (2022)

Baum, H.; de Barros Fritz, R.; Duden, K.; Ellger, R.; Elyazidi, S.; Engelcke, D.; Franck, G.; Hadadi Awal Bajestani, L. S.; Jessel-Holst, C.; Krell, D. et al.; Kulms, R.; Martiny, D.; Michaels, R.; Möller, L.-M.; Olbing, J.; Perrouin-Verbe, D.; Schmidt, J. P.; Schoppe, C.; Siehr, K.; Sommerfeld, A.; Toman, C.; Wiedemann, D.; Yassari, N.; Zeh, S.: Die Frühehe im Rechtsvergleich: Praxis, Sachrecht, Kollisionsrecht. Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 84, pp. 705 - 785 (2020)

Engelcke, D.: Establishing Filiation (nasab) and the Placement of Destitute Children into New Families: What Role Does the State Play? Journal of Law and Religion 34, pp. 408 - 432 (2019)

Engelcke, D.; Yassari, N.: Symposium Introduction – Child Law in Muslim Jurisdictions: The Role of the State in Establishing Filiation (nasab) and Protecting Parentless Children. Journal of Law and Religion 34, pp. 332 - 335 (2019)

Engelcke, D.: Die Aufhebung des Eheverbots zwischen muslimischen Tunesierinnen und nichtmuslimischen Männern: eine kritische Anmerkung. Zeitschrift für Europarecht, internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung 59, pp. 228 - 236 (2018)

Engelcke, D.: Law-making in Jordan: Family Law Reform and the Supreme Justice Department. Islamic Law and Society 25, pp. 274 - 309 (2018)

Engelcke, D.: Interpreting the 2004 Moroccan Family Law: Street-Level Bureaucrats, Women’s Groups, and the Preservation of Multiple Normativities. Law & Social Inquiry (2017)

Engelcke, D.: Ebert: Islamisches Familien- und Erbrecht der arabischen Länder: Herausforderungen und Reformen. Das Standesamt, pp. 95 - 96 (2022)

Engelcke, D.: Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State. By Tamir Moustafa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 325 p. Journal of Law and Religion 36, pp. 167 - 170 (2021)

Engelcke, D.: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State. By Iza R. Hussin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 352p. Perspectives on Politics 17, pp. 1212 - 1213 (2019)

Engelcke, D.: Reasserting State Control Over Official Islam in Morocco, in: Official Islam in the Arab World: The Contest for Religious Authority. Ed. Nathan J. Brown, 13-15. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (2017)

Engelcke, D.: Morocco's Changing Civil Society. Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2016)

Engelcke, D.: The Ongoing, Steady Gains of Morocco's Islamist Party. Jadaliyya (2015)

Engelcke, D.: „Does State Law Pluralism Inhibit Legal Reform?” (Interview for “Latest Thinking”). (2021)