divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world Voorhoeve, Maaike 1979- text bibliography enk London New York I.B. Tauris Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 2012 monographic eng

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vi, 240 p. ; 23 cm. 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. edited by Maaike Voorhoeve. Includes bibliographical references and index. Domestic relations (Islamic law) Muslim women Divorce Religious aspects Islam Islamic courts KBP540.3 .F36 2012 346.167015 9781848857421 (cloth : alk. paper) 184885742X (cloth : alk. paper) 2012357339 YDXCP 120803 20170105102912.0 17414527