Contents
List of Contributors .................................................................................................................. xv
List of Illustrations .................................................................................................................... xxi
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................... xxiii
Preface (Suad Joseph) ................................................................................................................ xxvii
Adoption and Fostering
Overview (Ingrid Mattson) .................................................................................................... 1
Central Asia and the Caucasus (Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva & Almaz Kadirova) .................... 3
North Africa (Jamila Bargach) .............................................................................................. 4
Turkey (Ferhunde Özbay) ...................................................................................................... 5
Apostasy
Overview (Nancy Gallagher) ................................................................................................ 7
Armenian Women
Overview (Houri Berberian) .................................................................................................. 10
Bahà±ìWomen
Overview (Susan Stiles Maneck) ............................................................................................ 15
Citizenship
The Caucasus and Central Asia (Marie-Carin von Gumppenberg) ........................................ 19
Egypt, Sudan and Arab States (Valentine M. Moghadam) ...................................................... 21
The Gulf and Yemen (Rima Sabban) ...................................................................................... 24
Southeast Asia (Vivienne Wee & Asma Beatrix) .................................................................... 25
Western Europe (Jocelyne Cesari) .......................................................................................... 29
Civil Society
Overview (Elizabeth F. Thompson) ........................................................................................ 34
Afghanistan (Elaheh Rostami Povey) .................................................................................... 40
The Balkans (Jasna Bak“iƒMuftiƒ) ........................................................................................ 42
Iran (Farideh Farhi) .............................................................................................................. 43
Israel (Hanna Herzog) .......................................................................................................... 44
Sub-Saharan Africa (Robert A. Dowd) .................................................................................. 47
Civil Society and Democracy Ideologies
Central Asia and the Caucasus (Anara Tabyshalieva) ............................................................ 50
South Asia (Rounaq Jahan) .................................................................................................... 52
Turkey (Yeçim Arat) .............................................................................................................. 55
Colonialism and Imperialism
British Colonial Domains of South Asia (Siobhan Lambert-Hurley) ...................................... 59
East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania (Susanna G. Rizzo) .................................... 61
Egypt (Mervat F. Hatem) ........................................................................................................ 66
French North Africa (Patricia M. E. Lorcin) .......................................................................... 69
Middle East, British (Nancy L. Stockdale) .............................................................................. 70
Russian Colonial Domains of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Mitra Raheb) ........................ 72
Sub-Saharan Africa (Lorelle Denise Semley) .......................................................................... 74
Constitutions
The Caucasus and Central Asian States (Dono Abdurazakova) .............................................. 78
Indonesia (SusìDwì Harìjantì) .............................................................................................. 79
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghanistan (Asghar Schirazi) ............................................ 81
South Asia (Laura Dudley Jenkins) ........................................................................................ 82
Sub-Saharan Africa (José C. M. van Santen) .......................................................................... 84