Family law in Islam
Subtitle: divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world
By: edited by Maaike Voorhoeve
Series: Library of Islamic law -- 4; Library of Islamic law -- 4.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781848857421
Subjects: Divorce; Muslim women; Domestic relations (Islamic law); Islamic courts; Islam
Description: "The Eastern Question, as it was termed by the European Powers in the nineteenth century, was a debate primarily concerned with the issue of 'what to do with the Turk?'. The Ottoman Empire had become known as the 'sick man of Europe' following its gradual decline since the eighteenth century, and its demise would be highly problematic for the crowned heads of Europe. This unique book focuses on the intellectual and political dynamics of the first Ottoman political opposition in the modern sense, the so-called 'Young Ottomans'. In the process it narrates an alternative version of the Eastern Question as experienced and told by its Eastern observers and critics. Nazan A icek shows how an important section of the newly-rising semi-autonomous Ottoman Muslim Turkish intelligentsia in the second half of the nineteenth century, effectively answered the alternative question of 'what to do with the West?'."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Baudouin Dupret and Maaike Voorhoeve; title: Discourses on the Law; title: 1. 'She brings up healthy children for the homeland' : morality discourses in Yemeni legal debates / Susanne Dahlgren; title: 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; title: 3. What a focus on 'Family' means in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo; title: 4. Rethinking the difference between formal and informal marriages in Egypt / Nadia Sonneveld; title: Discourses of the Law; title: 5. Waiting to win : family disputes, court reform, and the ethnography of delay / Christine Hegel-Gantarella; title: 6. Divorce practices in Muslim and Christian courts in Syria / Esther van Eijk; title: 7. Maktub : an ethnography of evidence in a Tunisian divorce court / Sarah Vincent-Grosso; title: 8. Judicial discretion in Tunisian personal status law / Maaike Voorhoeve.