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Introduction As opposed to other branches of law, the codification of Muslim personal status was a latecomer in the Gulf States, which-with the exception of Kuwait in the 1980s and Oman in the 1990s-only codified family law in the early twenty-first century. One reason for the apparent neglect of reform in this area of the law may be the distinctive economic status of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states. As rentier states, these monarchies have regularly relied on generous governmental benefits to “cushion” some of the negative social a…