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This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
Sommario
Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction
ANNELIES MOORS AND YAFA SHANNEIK
PART ONE
Gender and Generation: New Dating and Marriage Practices
1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives
MARY ELAINE HEGLAND
2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion
ANNA-MARIA WALTER
PART TWO
Dower Practices: Signifying Religion, Ethnicity, and Class
3 The Dower (
Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shi‘a of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity
JIHAN SAFAR
4
Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shia Marriage Practices
PART THREE
Temporary Marriage: A Flexible and Controversial Institution
5
Mut¿a Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shi‘i Environment of Indonesia
EVA F. NISA
6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students’ Discourse in the Netherlands about
Sigheh SOPHIE-YVIE GIRARD
7 “Laboratory
Sigheh”: The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran
TARA ASGARILALEH AND ANNELIES MOORS
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
Info autore
YAFA SHANNEIK is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK.
ANNELIES MOORS is an anthropologist and professor emerita at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
