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  title info:
    title: Muslim Divorce in the Middle East
    sub title: Contesting Gender in the Contemporary Courts
  name:
    name part: Carlisle, Jessica.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 158 p. online resource.
  abstract: How have Muslim marriages legally ended around the turn of the 21st century? Who has the power to initiate and resist shari'a derived divorce? When are husbands and wives made to bear the costs of their marital breakdown? What does divorce law indicate about the development of gender regimes in the Middle East and North Africa? This book opens with a description of the historical development of Islamic divorce in the MENA. Subsequent chapters follow a Syrian male judge, a Moroccan female legal advice worker and a Libyan female judge as they deal with divorce cases in which husbands, wives, their relatives and lawyers debate gender roles in contemporary Muslim marriages. MENA 'state feminism' has increasingly equalized men's and women's access to divorce and encouraged discussions about how spouses should treat each other in marriage. The real life outcomes of these reforms have often been surprising. Moreover, as the last chapter explores, jihadi proto-states (such as Islamic State) have violently rejected state feminist divorce law reform. This accessible book will appeal to students, researchers and a general readership interested in Islamic law; Middle Eastern studies; gender and sexuality; and, legal and social anthropology.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Muslim Divorce in the MENA: Shari'a, Codification, State Feminism and Modern Court Systems in Syria, Morocco and Libya -- Chapter 2: The Damascus Shari'a Court: The Judge, Arbitration and Lawyers in 2005 -- Chapter 3: A Legal Aid Centre in Marrakesh: Civil Society Activists and the Court in 2007 -- Chapter 4: Tripoli's Family Court in 2013 and Challenges to State Feminism in post-'Arab Spring' Libya and Syria -- Conclusion.
  note: by Jessica Carlisle.
  subject:
    topic: Identity politics
  subject:
    topic: Middle East-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Gender
  subject:
    topic: Middle Eastern Politics
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Religion
  classification: JA76
  classification: 320.562
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Gender and Politics
  identifier: 9783319770079
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77007-9
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    record creation date: 180628
    record change date: 20191028142027.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-77007-9