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Islamic Divorce in North America - A Shari'a Path in a Secular Society (Hardcover)
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Islamic Divorce in North America - A Shari'a Path in a Secular Society (Hardcover)
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Policy-makers and the public are increasingly attentive to the role
of shari'a in the everyday lives of Western Muslims, with negative
associations and public fears growing among their non-Muslim
neighbors in the United States and Canada. The most common way
North American Muslims relate to shari'a is in their observance of
Muslim marriage and divorce rituals; recourse to traditional
Islamic marriage and, to a lesser extent, divorce is widespread.
Julie Macfarlane has conducted hundreds of interviews with Muslim
couples, as well as with religious and community leaders and family
conflict professionals. Her book describes how Muslim marriage and
divorce processes are used in North America, and what they mean to
those who embrace them as a part of their religious and cultural
identity. The picture that emerges is of an idiosyncratic private
ordering system that reflects a wide range of attitudes towards
contemporary family values and changes in gender roles. Some women
describe pervasive assumptions about restrictions on their role in
the family system, as well as pressure to accept these values and
to stay married. Others of both genders describe the gradual
modernization of Islamic family traditions - and the subsequent
emergence of a Western shari'a--but a continuing commitment to the
rituals of Muslim marriage and divorce in their private lives.
Readers will be challenged to consider how the secular state should
respond in order to find a balance between state commitment to
universal norms and formal equality, and the protection of
religious freedom expressed in private religious and cultural
practices.
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