Marriage on trial : a study of Islamic family law : Iran and Morocco compared
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Marriage on trial : a study of Islamic family law : Iran and Morocco compared
（Society and culture in the modern Middle East）
I.B. Tauris, 1997
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 229-239
Includes index
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With the resurgence of Islam as a social and political force, debates over family law reveal the struggle between the forces of traditionalism and modernism. The disparate tendencies within so-called Islamic "fundamentalism" have in commmon the desire to re-institute Shari'a law, which they regard as the last bastion of the Islamic ideal of social relations. Yet very little is known of the ways in which the Shari'a actually operates in today's Muslim societies. Mir-Hosseini focuses on the dynamics of marriage and its breakdown, as well as the way in which litigants manipulate the law in order to resolve marital disputes and child custody cases. Taking an inter-disciplinaryand approach which straddles law, anthropology, sociology and women's studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women may turn even the most patriarchal elements of Islamic law to their advantage and achieve their personal marital aims.
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