TY  - BOOK
AU  - Voorhoeve,Maaike
TI  - Family law in Islam: divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world 
T2  - Library of Islamic law
SN  - 9781848857421 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - KBP540.3 .F36 2012
U1  - 346.167015 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris, Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Domestic relations (Islamic law)
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Divorce
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic courts
N1  - 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
ER  -