This article aims to contribute to the growing scholarly literature on the implementation of shariʿa-based family law codes by describing and analyzing the gender implications of religiously inspired judicial activism in relation to judicial divorce through khulʿ. The article highlights two functions played by family court judges and other legal professionals. First, I argue that Egyptian family court judges and other court personnel, such as court experts and court-appointed arbiters from al-Azhar, enjoy considerable discretion in interpreting and implementing the personal status codes. Second, the article argues that legal professionals sometimes use the court and other legal spaces as a platform to articulate alternative visions of family and marriage, as well as to voice anxieties over a perceived increase in female-initiated divorce. The article situates these contradictory practices against the background of the contestation of early twenty-first-century reforms, which challenged male authority in the family, in particular the 2000 law of judicial khulʿ.

本文旨在通过描述和分析受宗教启发的司法行动主义与通过库鲁（Kulul）进行的司法离婚有关的性别影响，来为基于伊斯兰教义的家庭法典的实施为不断增长的学术文献做出贡献。。本文重点介绍了家庭法院法官和其他法律专业人士所扮演的两个职能。首先，我认为埃及家庭法院法官和其他法院人员，例如法院专家和艾资哈尔（Al-Azhar）的法院指定的仲裁员，在解释和执行个人身份代码方面享有相当大的酌处权。其次，文章认为，法律专业人士有时会利用法院和其他法律空间作为表达家庭和婚姻的另类观点的平台，并表达对女性主动离婚增加的担忧。本文将这些矛盾的做法置于二十一世纪初期的改革之争的背景下，这些挑战挑战了家庭中的男性权威，尤其是2000年《库尔勒司法法》。