Khan, Arif Ali creator ed. 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, 389 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. Arif Ali Khan, M. H. Syed Includes bibliographical references and index. Domestic relations (Islamic law) Muslim women Divorce Religious aspects Islam Islamic courts KBP540.3 .F36 2012 340.59 FAM 8182742242 YDXCP 120803 20201215134340.0 17414527