Family law in Islam : divorce, marriage and women in the Muslim world / ed. by Maaike Voorhoeve.

Met lit. opg. en index.

Introduction / Baudouin Dupret and Maaike Voorhoeve -- Discourses on the Law -- 1. 'She brings up healthy children for the homeland': morality discourses in Yemeni legal debates / Susanne Dahlgren -- 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 -- 3. What a Focus on 'Family' Means in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo -- 4. Rethinking the Difference between Formal and Informal Marriages in Egypt / Nadia Sonneveld -- Discourses of the Law -- 5. Waiting to Win: Family Disputes, Court Reform, and the Ethnography of Delay / Christine Hegel-Cantarella -- 6. Divorce Practices in Muslim and Christian Courts in Syria / Esther van Eijk -- 7. Maktub: An Ethnography of Evidence in a Tunisian Divorce Court / Sarah Vincent-Grosso -- 8. Judicial Discretion in Tunisian Personal Status Law / Maaike Voorhoeve.

The authors address the topic of family law in the Middle East and North Africa from different angles. It has been viewed from a geographical and disciplinary level. Next to this, different topics of family law are addressed. These are arguments on the law (discussed by public, political and religious debates) and arguments of the law (described by examining the practices of judges, lawyers and litigants.