Islamic Divorce in the 21st Centuryshows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, having the ability to divorce in accordance with Islamic law is of paramount importance. However, Muslim experiences of divorce practice differ tremendously. The chapters in this volume discuss Islamic divorce from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and each story explores aspects of the everyday realities of disputing and divorcing Muslim couples face in the twenty-first century. The book’s cross-cultural and comparative look at Islamic divorce indicates that Muslim divorces are impacted by global religious discourses on Islamic authority, authenticity, and gender; by global patterns of and approaches to secularity; and by global economic inequalities and attendant patterns of urbanization and migration. Studying divorce as a mode of Islamic law in practice shows us that the Islamic legal tradition is flexible, malleable, and context-dependent.
takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
ERIN E. STILESis an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of
An Islamic Court in Context: An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoningand co-editor of
Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast.
AYANG UTRIZA YAKINis a research associate at the Chair of Law and Religion at the Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS) Institute at the
Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and a postdoctoral researcher at
Sciences Po Bordeaux&lƒƒ
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