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Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life

Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life

McBrien, Julie
Moors, Annelies

Paperback

Series: Islam, Culture and Society

IslamGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9462703817
ISBN13: 9789462703810
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: Dec 15 2023
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, media personalities, and women's activists discuss, promote, or reject unregistered, transnational, interreligious and other boundary-crossing marriages. Couples entering into such marriages, however, often have different concerns from those publicly discussed. Based on ethnographic research in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, the chapters of this volume examine couples' motivations for, aspirations about, and abilities to enter into these marriages. The contributions show the diverse ways in which such marriages are concluded, and inquire into how they are performed, authorized or contested as Muslim marriages. These marriages may challenge existing ties of belonging and transform boundaries between religious and other communities, but they may also, and sometimes simultaneously, reproduce and solidify them.

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