Debates over family law are a sensitive subject in the Muslim world, revealing something of the struggle between forces of traditionalism and modernism. The highly disparate tendencies within Islamic "fundamentalism" share a desire to re-institute Shar'ia law, regarded as the last bastion of the Islamic ideal of social relations. This book probes the theory and practice of Islamic family law in the contemporary Muslim world, focusing on the dynamics of marriage and the consequences of its breakdown, and the ways in which litigants manipulate the law to resolve marital and child custody disputes.
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'One of the best, most original and liveliest books on the subject I have ever read ... The author does what few writers on the subject are able to do. She goes beyond the classical text-books of fiqh, and asks how law is actually interpreted, administered and used in Muslim societies.' - Albert Hourani
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Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a distinguished anthropologist who carried out her work at Girton College, Cambridge. She was the co-producer of the classic documentary Divorce Iranian Style.
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In Muslim societies today, marriage is governed by religious precepts, embodied in modern systems of law. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moroccan Code, Court of Notaries, Family Protection Law, Court of First Instance, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lowest Highest Mean Original, Original Revised, Total Accepted Rejected Withdrawn Abandoned Dismissed New!
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In Muslim societies today, marriage is governed by religious precepts, embodied in modern systems of law. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moroccan Code, Court of Notaries, Family Protection Law, Court of First Instance, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lowest Highest Mean Original, Original Revised, Total Accepted Rejected Withdrawn Abandoned Dismissed New!
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- Law and Islam in the Middle East by Daisy Hilse Dwyer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Character of Kinship by Jack Goody in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Islamic Law: Social and Historical Contexts by Aziz Al-Azmeh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics by Ewan Anderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Islamic Impulse by Barbara Freyer Stowasser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco by Mounira Charrad in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women and Politics in the Third World (Women in Politics) by Haleh Afshar in Front Matter, page 141, and page 170
- Women, Religion and Culture in Iran (Royal Asiatic Society Books) by Sarah Ansari on page 9, page 213, and Back Matter
- Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Cambridge Middle East Studies) by Nathan J. Brown on page 196, and Back Matter
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