Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective

Contents\nSeries Foreword\nPreface and Acknowledgments\nList of Abbreviations\nNote on Transliteration\nIntroduction: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First- Century Practice\nPart One. State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations\n1. Divorce by khulʿ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority\n2. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary\n3. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa\nPart Two. Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing\n4. Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: Divorce on Grounds of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Indonesian Religious Courts\n5. “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Accra, Ghana\n6. Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family Courts\nPart Three. Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies\n7. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali\n8. A “Much-Married Woman” Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China\n9. The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India\nConclusion: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex