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  • Normativity and Diversity in Family Law

    Lessons from Comparative Law

    Edited by Nadjma Yassari, Marie-Claire Foblets ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other “claims” that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world.The country reports seek to determine whether these claims represent a challenge to family law as conceived by the state, ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Changing God’s Law

    The dynamics of Middle Eastern family law

    Edited by Nadjma Yassari ...
    Series series Islamic Law in Context
    This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East. Besides the importance of family law regulations for each individual, family law has become the battleground of political and social contestation. Divided into four parts, the collection presents a general overview and analysis of the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children

    Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions

    Edited by Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller, Marie-Claude Najm ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop “Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?”, which was convened in Beirut, Lebanon in November 2017.Filiation is a multifaceted concept in Muslim jurisdictions. Beyond its legal aspect, it encompasses the notion of inclusion and belonging, thereby holding significant ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries

    Edited by Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller, Imen Gallala-Arndt ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is the first analysis of parental care regimes in Muslim jurisdictions, both in a comparative and country-specific sense. It contains the proceedings of a workshop on Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries that the Max Planck Research Group “Changes in God’s Law: An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law” hosted in Rabat, Morocco in April ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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    Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France

    by Naomi Davidson ...
    The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints, posters, propaganda films, and documentation from metropolitan and colonial officials as well as ... Read more

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  • Republic of Islamophobia

    The Rise of Respectable Racism in France

    by James Wolfreys ...
    Why does Islamophobia dominate public debate in France? Islamophobia in France is rising, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Championed by Marine Le Pen and drawing on the French colonial legacy, France's 'new secularism' gives racism a respectable veneer. Jim Wolfreys exposes the dynamic driving this intolerance: a society polarized by inequality, and ... Read more

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  • Islam and Social Change in French West Africa

    History of an Emancipatory Community

    by Sean Hanretta ...
    Series Book 110 - African Studies
    Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa

    Actors and Factors

    Edited by Justin Frosini, Francesco Biagi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government
    The transformations which are taking place in the Arab world are dynamic processes characterised by a number of variables that one can refer to as actors and factors.The implications of the Arab uprisings are important for the world at large; the Arab world’s successes, and failures, at this crucial moment may well serve as a model for other nations. Political and Constitutional Transitions in ... Read more

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  • Multi-Ethnic France

    Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society

    by Alec G. Hargreaves ...
    This second edition of Multi-Ethnic France spans politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices and has been updated to cover events which have occurred on the national and international stage since the first edition was published. These include:recent developments in the Banlieues, including the riots of 2005the growing visibility of sub-Saharan Africans in France's evolving ... Read more

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  • Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring

    by Rainer Grote, Tilmann J. Röder ...
    Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact that new and draft constitutions and amendments - such as those in Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia - have had on the transformative processes that drive constitutionalism in Arab countries. This book aims to identify and analyze the key issues facing constitutional law and ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • Family Law in Syria

    Patriarchy, Pluralism and Personal Status Laws

    by Esther van Eijk ...
    The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society. Since Ottoman times, the different religious communities have enjoyed the right to regulate and administer their own family relations. Matters of personal status including marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance continue to be managed by a variety of religious laws and courts ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

    Edited by Ralph Grillo, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, André J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen, Prakash Shah ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. Locating actual practices and interpretations which occur in jurisprudence and in public discussion, this ... Read more

    $76.99 USD