Family law in Islam divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world

Family law in Islam divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world - London I B Tauris 2016 - vi,241p. 23 cm. - Library of Islamic law .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Baudouin Dupret and Maaike Voorhoeve -- Discourses on the Law -- 1. 'She brings up healthy children for the homeland' : morality discourses in Yemeni legal debates / Susanne Dahlgren -- 2. Reclaiming changes within the community public sphere : Druze women's activism, personal status law and the quest for Lebanese multiple citizenship / Massimo di Ricco -- 3. What a focus on 'Family' means in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo -- 4. Rethinking the difference between formal and informal marriages in Egypt / Nadia Sonneveld -- Discourses of the Law -- 5. Waiting to win : family disputes, court reform, and the ethnography of delay / Christine Hegel-Gantarella -- 6. Divorce practices in Muslim and Christian courts in Syria / Esther van Eijk -- 7. Maktub : an ethnography of evidence in a Tunisian divorce court / Sarah Vincent-Grosso -- 8. Judicial discretion in Tunisian personal status law / Maaike Voorhoeve.

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Domestic relations (Islamic law)
Muslim women.
Divorce--Religious aspects--Islam.
Islamic courts.

KBP540.3 / .F36 2012

346.15091767 / FA-

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