Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 236
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Series Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First- Century Practice
Part One. State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations
1. Divorce by khulʿ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority
2. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary
3. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa
Part Two. Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing
4. Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: Divorce on Grounds of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Indonesian Religious Courts
5. “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Accra, Ghana
6. Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family Courts
Part Three. Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies
7. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali
8. A “Much-Married Woman” Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China
9. The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India
Conclusion: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field
Notes on Contributors
Index

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