The Division of Matrimonial Wealth in Malay Polygyny &
the Codification of Culture in Malaysian Islamic Family Law
A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project based in the University of Bergen (2024-2026)
A project about money and Malay matrimony
This project, funded by the European Commission, is a socio-legal study of the division of matrimonial wealth (harta sepencarian) in Shari’ah (Islamic) courts in contemporary Malaysia. It is affiliated with the CanCode Project at the University of Bergen led by Dr. Eirik Hovden.
Q1: Updates
Without realizing it, the first quarter of my MSCA project has passed. In that time, I’ve established new connections in Bergen and re-established existing ones in Europe, and incrementally getting deeper and deeper into the project. Here’s what I’ve been up to lately.
Mobility & MALAYMATRIMONEY
MSCA values mobility. Indeed, it is meant to encourage early-career researchers to venture abroad to establish new connections abroad — one important criterion for the MSCA is that it must be hosted in a country where the applicant has not lived in for more than six months in the past three years. In this post, I reflect on what “mobility” truly entails — especially logistically — and what it takes to establish identity and personhood for the academic nomad.
MSCA Project Launch at UiB
After postponing for about a year to finish up my JSPS appointment at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies in Kyoto University, I finally packed up my bags and moved to Bergen to take up my Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway.
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif 