约旦哈希姆王国在其百年历史进程中,其婚姻法从沿用奥斯曼帝国颁布的《奥斯曼家庭权利决定》,到颁布约旦首部婚姻法《家庭权利》,直到2001年《个人身份法》颁布,经历了在沿用奥斯曼法的进程中向本国婚姻法的转变、在保持传统的基础上向现代婚姻法的转变、现代婚姻制度的确立三个发展阶段。在伊斯兰沙利亚法、约旦穆斯林兄弟会的成立、部落传统、教育水平、城市化、经济发展和妇女解放甚至巴勒斯坦战争等因素的影响下,约旦政府不断修订完善婚姻法,以适应约旦国情变化和社会发展需要。约旦婚姻法的百年发展演变,折射出约旦社会在宗教与世俗的平衡中寻求发展,在传统与现代的结合中推进改革,在调适领土与人口变化中促进现代阿拉伯约旦国民构建和现代阿拉伯约旦国家构建的发展轨迹。
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in its one hundred years of history,its marriage law followed the ottoman Family Rights Decision issued by the Ottoman Empire,to the Jordanian Family Rights,the first marriage law in Jordan,until the Jordanian Personal Status Law was promulgated in 2001,had gone through the process of extending the Ottoman law to the national law of marriage,maintaining the traditional basis of the transition to modern marriage law,and the establishment of modern marriage system three distinct stages of development. Under the influence of Islamic Sharia,the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan,tribal traditions,education level,urbanization,economic development,women’s liberation and even the War in Palestine,the Jordanian government has constantly revised and improved the marriage law to meet the needs of Jordanian social development. The evolution of Jordan’s marriage law in the past 100 years reflects the development track from seeking social development in the balance between religion and secularism,carrying forward reform in the combination of tradition and modernity,and adjusting the changes of the territorial and demographic to promote building a modern Arab-Jordanian national and building a modern Arab-Jordanian state.