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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;Â by global patterns of and approaches to
secularity;Â 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.
Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned
what it means to be a "good Muslim." Much recent scholarship on
Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about
authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of
this topic within studies of Indian Ocean, African, and other
Muslim communities, little of the existing scholarship has
addressed such debates in relation to women, gender, or sexuality.
Yet women are deeply involved with ideas about what it means to be
a "good Muslim." In Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean,
anthropologists, historians, linguists, and gender studies scholars
examine Islam, sexuality, gender, and marriage on the Swahili coast
and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. The book examines diverse sites
of empowerment, contradiction, and resistance affecting cultural
norms, Islam and ideas of Islamic authenticity, gender
expectations, ideologies of modernity, and British education. The
book's attention to both masculinity and femininity, broad
examination of the transnational space of the Swahili coast, and
inclusion of research on non-Swahili groups on the East African
coast makes it a unique and indispensable resource. Contributors:
Nadine Beckmann, Pat Caplan, Corrie Decker, Rebecca Gearhart, Linda
Giles, Meghan Halley, Susan Hirsch, Susi Keefe, Kjersti Larsen,
Elisabeth McMahon, Erin Stiles, and Katrina Daly Thompson
Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned
what it means to be a "good Muslim." Much recent scholarship on
Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about
authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of
this topic within studies of Indian Ocean, African, and other
Muslim communities, little of the existing scholarship has
addressed such debates in relation to women, gender, or sexuality.
Yet women are deeply involved with ideas about what it means to be
a "good Muslim." In Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean,
anthropologists, historians, linguists, and gender studies scholars
examine Islam, sexuality, gender, and marriage on the Swahili coast
and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. The book examines diverse sites
of empowerment, contradiction, and resistance affecting cultural
norms, Islam and ideas of Islamic authenticity, gender
expectations, ideologies of modernity, and British education. The
book's attention to both masculinity and femininity, broad
examination of the transnational space of the Swahili coast, and
inclusion of research on non-Swahili groups on the East African
coast makes it a unique and indispensable resource. Contributors:
Nadine Beckmann, Pat Caplan, Corrie Decker, Rebecca Gearhart, Linda
Giles, Meghan Halley, Susan Hirsch, Susi Keefe, Kjersti Larsen,
Elisabeth McMahon, Erin Stiles, and Katrina Daly Thompson
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