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Marriage on trial : Islamic family law in Iran and Morocco / Ziba Mir-Hosseini.
LIBRA K675 .M57 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matrimonial actions (Islamic law)--Morocco.
- Matrimonial actions (Islamic law).
- Marriage (Islamic law)--Morocco.
- Marriage (Islamic law).
- Matrimonial actions (Islamic law)--Iran.
- Marriage (Islamic law)--Iran.
- Marriage--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Marriage.
- Iran.
- Morocco.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 245 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : St. Martin's Press [distributor], 2000.
- Summary:
- Debates over family law are a sensitive subject in the Muslim world, revealing something of the struggle between forces of traditionalism and modernism. The highly disparate tendencies within Islamic "fundamentalism" share a desire to re-institute Shar'ia law, regarded as the last bastion of the Islamic ideal of social relations. This book probes the theory and practice of Islamic family law in the contemporary Muslim world, focusing on the dynamics of marriage and the consequences of its breakdown, and the ways in which litigants manipulate the law to resolve marital and child custody disputes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1860646085
- OCLC:
- 45649298
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