Family law in Islam :  divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world / 
edited by Maaike Voorhoeve. 
 - London ;  New York :  I.B. Tauris :  Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,  2012. 
 - vi, 240 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Library of Islamic law ;  4 .
 - Library of Islamic law ;  4. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781848857421 (cloth : alk. paper) 184885742X (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012357339 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB1A0228  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015875314  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Domestic relations (Islamic law)<br/>Muslim women.<br/>Divorce--Religious aspects--Islam.<br/>Islamic courts.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KBP540.3  / .F36 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.167015