Islamic divorce in the twenty-first century : a global perspective

Stiles, Erin E., (editor.). Yakin, Ayang Utriza, 1978- (editor.).

Summary: "Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, having the ability to divorce in accordance with Islamic law is of paramount importance. However, Muslim experiences of divorce practice differ tremendously. The chapters in this volume discuss Islamic divorce from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and each story explores aspects of the everyday realities of disputing and divorcing Muslim couples face in the twenty-first century. The book's cross-cultural and comparative look at Islamic divorce indicates that Muslim divorces are impacted by global religious discourses on Islamic authority, authenticity, and gender; by global patterns of and approaches to secularity; and by global economic inequalities and attendant patterns of urbanization and migration. Studying divorce as a mode of Islamic law in practice shows us that the Islamic legal tradition is flexible, malleable, and context-dependent"--

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ISBN: 197882906X
ISBN: 9781978829060
Physical Description: xv, 217 pages ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series Foreword / by Péter Berta -- Preface (Acknowledgment) -- 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: 2. Divorce by Khulʻ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women's Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority / by Elisa Giunchi -- 3. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary / by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron -- 4. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa / by Fatima Essop -- Part II. Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing: 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 -- 6. "I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me": Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce In Accra, Ghana / by Fulera Issaka-Toure -- 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: 8. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce and Gender Relations in Mali / by Dorothea Schulz and Souleymane Diallo -- 9. A 'Much-Married Woman' Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China / by Rune Steenberg -- 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.