Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Sevil Sümer, University of Bergen, Norway Anara Tabyshalieva, Institute for Regional Studies, Kyrgyzstan Liyakat Takim, Universi ...

The illustrations can be found between pages 428 and 429. Family Law: Modern Family Law, 1800–Present: Gulf, Saudi Arabia, and Y ...

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Acknowledgments Department Grants Officer, and the Anthropology Staff: Peggy Slaven, Barbara Raney, Royce McClel- lan, Eddie Ng, ...

Mohammed Tabishat assisted in translation. Shami also most gratefully acknowledges the Social Science Research Council for accom ...

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volume ii, ewic With Volume II, EWIC launches the first of four volumes dedicated to substantive topics of rele- vance to women ...

the appropriate authors. At times, authors were overloaded and were not able to commit to writing the entries for EWIC in the ti ...

Overview Across cultures, adoption and fostering take dif- ferent forms. In the Arabic language, adoption (tabannà) signifies th ...

right to support from legally designated relatives. Sometimes the child is temporarily placed in the custody of these relatives, ...

Compared with medieval Europe, orphanages have never been common in traditional Muslim societies. With changing social norms and ...

of families with both husband and wife and an increase in the number of single women; for many of them creating a family was onl ...

or entrusting them to individuals/families, the majority of which take place outside, and are at times contrary to, the legal no ...

recommended means to protect girl orphans from deprivation. Islamic law suggests foster-family and marriage institutions instead ...

Overview Radical Islamists have often filed charges of apostasy and blasphemy against secular Muslim intellectuals. Early in the ...

whether women apostates should be killed or imprisoned and beaten. Both men and women con- victed of apostasy lose their propert ...

simply repeated the shahàdabefore the qà∂ì. She neither rescinded nor apologized for her views. After hearing al-Fayßal’s statem ...

Overview Any discussion of Armenian women must take into consideration that they have been part of a large minority dispersed in ...

provided not only efficiency, enforceability, and registry, but also better served the interests of claimants. Christian women, ...