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Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
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Note on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Preface (Acknowledgment)
Chapter 1: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First Century Practice by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin
Part I : State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations
Chapter 2: Divorce by Khul‘ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority by Elisa Giunchi
Chapter 3: Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron
Chapter 4: Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa by Fatima Essop
Part II: Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing
Chapter 5: Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: The Judicial Practices of Divorce on the Ground of Sexual Dissatisfaction within Indonesian Religious Courts by Ayang Utriza Yakin
Chapter 6: “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce In Accra, Ghana by Fulera Issaka-Toure
Chapter 7: Undoing Marriage in Lebanon. Divorce within and beyond Family Courts by Jean-Michel Landry
Part III: Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies
Chapter 8: Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce and Gender Relations in Mali by Dorothea Schulz and Souleymane Diallo
Chapter 9: A ‘Much-Married Woman’ Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China by Rune Steenberg
Chapter 10: The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India by Katherine Lemons with Nadia Hussein
Afterword: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field and Concluding Thoughts by Erin E. Stiles with Ayang Utriza Yakin
Notes on Contributors
Index
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ERIN E. STILES is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of An Islamic Court in Context: An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning and co-editor of Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast.
AYANG UTRIZA YAKIN is a research associate at the Chair of Law and Religion at the Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS) Institute at the UniversitÉ Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po Bordeaux in France. He is the co-editor of Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretation.
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Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
