Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

ERIN E. STILES is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of An Islamic Court in Context: An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning and co-editor of Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast.   AYANG UTRIZA YAKIN is a research associate at the Chair of Law and Religion at the Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS) Institute at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po Bordeaux in France. He is the co-editor of Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretation.  

Note on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Preface (Acknowledgment)
Chapter 1: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First Century Practice by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin                                   
Part I : State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations
Chapter 2: Divorce by Khul‘ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority by Elisa Giunchi                                                           
Chapter 3: Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron                                                                                                              
Chapter 4: Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa by Fatima Essop  
Part II: Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing
Chapter 5: Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: The Judicial Practices of Divorce on the Ground of Sexual Dissatisfaction within Indonesian Religious Courts by Ayang Utriza Yakin
Chapter 6: “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”:  Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce In Accra, Ghana by Fulera Issaka-Toure                
Chapter 7: Undoing Marriage in Lebanon. Divorce within and beyond Family Courts by Jean-Michel Landry
Part III:  Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies
Chapter 8: Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce and Gender Relations in Mali by Dorothea Schulz and Souleymane Diallo
Chapter 9: A ‘Much-Married Woman’ Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China by Rune Steenberg
Chapter 10: The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India by Katherine Lemons with Nadia Hussein
Afterword: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field and Concluding Thoughts by Erin E. Stiles with Ayang Utriza Yakin                                 
Notes on Contributors
Index