Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

focuses on the Minangkabau social organization that favors women in order to explore ramifica- tions of the integration of Islam ...

ically land, also goes through a father to a son. Traditionally, a daughter will not inherit from her parents as after marriage ...

children once they reach a particular age (Hum- phrey 1984, 43). Traditionally, mainstream Australia is a bilateral society and ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan is a multiethnic, tribal society with a predominantly rural population. Islam as the foun- dation of the ...

issued in the following year, imposed restrictions on polygamy and outlawed the Pashtun practices of bartering women as retribut ...

patrilineal descent societies, with specific reference to works in anthropology on kinship in the Middle East and Central Asia a ...

is placed hierarchically before the value of affinity. The topic of the general life process is encoun- tered again in the field ...

ties – notably the Màppilla of Kerala, the people of Lakshadweep (both in India), and of the Mal- dives – continued to remain so ...

worked out, for example by jurists of the £anafì school that predominates in South Asia. As Ahmad observes, “caste among Muslims ...

practice of marriage reflect the inextricable inter- meshing of kinship rules and social organization with dominant economic and ...

29ff), thus underscoring the principle of the appro- priation of women through the community and the state. Ever since, marriage ...

democracy. But even among those who reject a UCC, there have been many diverging voices, going back more than 30 years (Fyzee 19 ...

Bibliography I. Ahmad (ed.), Family, kinship and marriage among Muslims in India, Delhi 1976. ——, Introduction, in I. Ahmad (ed. ...

Iran Kin terms vary considerably by language and local dialect, all within a bilateral structure with patrilineal emphasis. Term ...

An adult, especially female, speaker is likely to add the possessive suffix manor am to extended kin terms to emphasize positive ...

Arab States Although the Arab world is geographically vast and features considerable sociocultural diversity, its peoples have i ...

Ottoman state, through the intensification and decline of European colonialism, and the advent of the modern Arab state. Women l ...

ization of women, and other realities inherent in the conflation of patriarchy and state. Bibliography L. Anderson, Scholarship, ...

recognized Osman as the rightful heir to O©uz’s rule. At the same time, the Ottomans purposely revived ancient Turkish tradition ...

C. Imber, The Ottoman dynastic myth, in Turcica 19 (1987), 7–27. H. ÷nalcık, The Ottoman Empire. The classical age 1300– 1600 , ...