This book deals with the concept of marriage, its definition, its purposes, and the motives for it. Through its chapters, it presents modern and comparative Egyptian society... and the extent of the possibility of developing unified personal status legislation for all citizens of the Arab Republic of Egypt, regardless of the difference in religion or sect... It also examines the attempt to develop objective solutions to the three problems that confront Unifying personal status laws, including polygamy, divorce, and the form of marriage.
The work of its author, Mr. Adel Ahmed Sarkis, has been in the legal profession since he graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1953, during which he practiced many personal status cases. These trends were then confirmed when he was appointed to the Juvenile Prosecution Office, and he noticed from the reality of his work the extent to which juvenile delinquency is linked to status problems. Personality... Perhaps these trends were further confirmed by his practice of working in the Cairo Public Prosecution Office for Personal Status for years before he returned again to work as a lawyer.