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  • The Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate, 1924

    Debates and Implications

    Edited by Elisa Giunchi, Nicola Melis ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    This book explores the decision by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1924 to abolish the caliphate. The Ottoman sultans had long borne the title of caliphs of Islam, with all the prestigious authority throughout the Muslim world that went with it, and in the aftermath of the First World War the caliphate still retained great symbolic relevance.The book considers the questions that arose ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

    A Global Perspective

    by Erin E. Stiles, Ayang Utriza Yakin, Elisa Giunchi, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Fatima Essop, Fulera Issaka-Toure, Jean-Michel Landry, Dorothea Schulz, Souleymane Diallo0, Rune Steenberg1, Katherine Lemons2, Nadia Hussain3 ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Adjudicating Family Law in Muslim Courts

    Edited by Elisa Giunchi ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    While there are many books on Islamic family law, the literature on its enforcement is scarce. This book focuses on how Islamic family law is interpreted and applied by judges in a range of Muslim countries – Sunni and Shi'a, as well as Arab and non-Arab. It thereby aids the understanding of shari'a law in practice in a number of different cultural and political settings. It shows how the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Muslim Family Law in Western Courts

    Edited by Elisa Giunchi ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    This book focuses on Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, Australia and North America. It uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, dower, polygamy, and divorce - are adjudicated. The solutions proposed by different legal systems are reviewed , and some broader questions are ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    A Comparative Analysis

    by Salim Farrar, Ghena Krayem ...
    The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Sharīʽah post-9/11. The book looks at the accommodation of Sharīʽah Law within Western Common Law legal traditions and the role of the judiciary, in particular, in drawing boundaries for secular democratic states with Muslim populations who want resolutions to conflicts that also comply with the dictates of their faith.Salim ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • What Is an American Muslim?

    Embracing Faith and Citizenship

    by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im ...
    Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples. Even within the Muslim community many leaders urge believers to integrate more fully into the mainstream of American life. Is it possible to be both fully American and ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Family Law in Syria

    Patriarchy, Pluralism and Personal Status Laws

    by Esther van Eijk ...
    The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society. Since Ottoman times, the different religious communities have enjoyed the right to regulate and administer their own family relations. Matters of personal status including marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance continue to be managed by a variety of religious laws and courts ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Women in the Middle East and North Africa

    Agents of Change

    Edited by Fatima Sadiqi, Moha Ennaji ...
    Series series UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED)
    This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a smooth co-existence of tradition and modernity, a transitional stage in development, and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

    Social and Historical Contexts

    by Aziz Al-Azmeh ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam
    This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Islam and the Rule of Justice

    Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture

    by Lawrence Rosen ...
    In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice do not reflect the full reality of the Islamic law in its everyday practice. Whether in the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Sexual Ethics and Islam

    Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence

    by Kecia Ali ...
    Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this updated and expanded edition of her ground-breaking work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali asks how one can determine what makes sex lawful and ethical in the sight of God.Drawing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Reflections on the Revolution In Europe

    Immigration, Islam, and the West

    by Christopher Caldwell ...
    In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West.This provocative and unflinching analysis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD