Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Series Foreword ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Note on Transliteration xv
7. Introduction: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First- Century Practice 1
8. Part One. State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations
9. 1. Divorce by khulʿ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority 23
10. 2. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary 46
11. 3. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa 65
12. Part Two. Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing
13. 4. Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: Divorce on Grounds of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Indonesian Religious Courts 83
14. 5. “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Accra, Ghana 106
15. 6. Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family Courts 123
16. Part Three. Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies
17. 7. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali 141
18. 8. A “Much-Married Woman” Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China 166
19. 9. The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India 187
20. Conclusion: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field 204
21. Notes on Contributors 211
22. Index 215