Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam

Abbas Panakkal, The School of History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.  

Nasr M Arif, Visiting Professor, University of St Andrews, UK and Professor of political science,  University  of Cairo, Egypt.

Part I South and Southeast Asia.- Matrifocal, Matrilineal, or Matriarchal? Cultural Resilience and Vulnerability Among the Matrilineal and Muslim Minangkabau in Indonesia.- Adat Perpatih in Malaysia: Nature, History, Practice, and Contemporary Issues.- Cultural and Social Integrations in Matrilineal, Matriarchal, Matrifocal Muslim Communities of South India.- Part II Northeast Asia.- Affective Matrivocality and Women's Voices: A History of Muslim Women Writers in China.- Matriarchal Family Structure in Korea's Jeju Island and itsImplications for the Muslim Community in Korea.- The Maternal Initiative Role in the Japanese Muslim Community: Japanese Muslim Wives as Mediators Between Muslim Immigrants and Japanese Society.- Part III Africa.- Muslim Family Under Portuguese Rule: Shari a and Matrilineal Custom in Colonial Coastal Northern Mozambique (ca. 1900-1974).- Asante Nkramo and Fantse Nkramo: Unravelling the Paradoxof Islam and Matriliny in Ghana.- Part IV Andalusia and Americas.- The Tuareg, from Arabia to Americas.- The Origins of Andalusian Muslim Matrilineal Systems.