Divorcing Traditions : : Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism /

Divorcing Traditions : : Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism / / Katherine Lemons.

Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is crit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Lemons, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I. The State
  • Chapter 1. Regulating Kinship under Legal Pluralism
  • Chapter 2. Muslim Divorce, Secularism's Crucible
  • PART II. The Qazi
  • Chapter 3. Shari'a Courts' Family Values
  • Chapter 4. The Converging Jurisprudence of Divorce
  • PART III. The Mufti
  • Chapter 5. "Talaq, Talaq, Talaq . . ."
  • Chapter 6. The Healing Jurist
  • Conclusion. Divorcing Traditions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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