Family law in Islam : divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world / edited by Maaike Voorhoeve.
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TextSeries: Library of Islamic law: 4.Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: vi, 240 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781848857421 (cloth : alk. paper); 184885742X (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Domestic relations (Islamic law) | Muslim women | Divorce -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Islamic courtsDDC classification: 346.167015 LOC classification: KBP540.3 | .F36 2012| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 346.167015 FAM 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0001238 |
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.
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