Divorce Islamic Style

Author : Amara Lakhous
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609458942

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Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous Pdf

Secret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in this “whimsical and at times heartbreaking look” at the Muslim communities of Rome (The New York Times). The Italian secret service believes that a group of Muslim immigrants is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover in Rome’s Egyptian neighborhood, Viale Marconi, to infiltrate the group. Posing as a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a job and a place to sleep, Christian soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian immigrant whose arranged marriage is anything but fulfilling. While Christian attempts in vain to uncover terrorist activity, Sofia is on another kind of secret mission—in defiance of a husband who forbids her to work. In alternating voices, Algerian-born Italian author Amara Lakhous examines the commonplaces and stereotypes of life in modern, multicultural Italy. Divorce Islamic Style mixes the rational and the absurd as it depicts the conflicts and contradictions of today's globalized world.

Author : Erin E. Stiles,Ayang Utriza Yakin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978829084

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Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century by Erin E. Stiles,Ayang Utriza Yakin Pdf

Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows 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.

Author : Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815626886

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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol Pdf

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.

Author : Amara Lakhous
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450434

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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous Pdf

The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly). Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the world. But when a tenant is murdered in the building’s elevator, the delicate balance is thrown into disarray. As each of the victim’s neighbors is questioned by the police, readers are offered an all-access pass into the most colorful neighborhood in contemporary Rome. With language as colorful as the neighborhood it describes, each character takes his or her turn “giving evidence.” Their various stories reveal much about the drama of racial identity and the anxieties of a life spent on society’s margins, but also bring to life the hilarious imbroglios of this melting pot Italian culture. “Their frequently wild testimony teases out intriguing psychological and social insight alongside a playful whodunit plot.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Suzy Ismail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Divorce
ISBN : 1590080645

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When Muslim Marriage Fails by Suzy Ismail Pdf

Author : Cristina Lombardi-Diop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137281463

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Postcolonial Italy by Cristina Lombardi-Diop Pdf

This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies.

Author : Amara Lakhous
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609451950

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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet by Amara Lakhous Pdf

An Italian journalist gets wrapped up in the criminality and cultural controversies of modern Turin in this “very funny” satirical novel (The New York Times). It’s October 2006. The northern Italian town of Turin has been rocked by a series of murders involving Albanians and Romanians, and journalist Enzo Laganà is determined to get to the bottom of the crime wave—even if he must invent a few sources to do so. But first he’s been conscripted to mediate the issue of a pig running loose in a mosque. Gino the pig belongs to Enzo’s Nigerian immigrant neighbor, Joseph. The Muslim community wants Gino killed, an animal rights group wants him saved, and Joseph is pleading his pig’s innocence. As Enzo navigates various calamities large and small, he scrambles to keep track of his lies even as he uncovers some uncomfortable truths about contemporary, multicultural Italy. “This very funny novel examines a town’s heightened ignorance and hostility toward foreigners, and what it means to be a “true” Italian, even if the native in question is a small pig.” —The New York Times

Author : Yossef Rapoport
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139444811

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Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society by Yossef Rapoport Pdf

High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage,Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property between spouses made divorce easy and normative, initiated by wives as often as by their husbands. This carefully researched work of social history is interwoven with intimate accounts of individual medieval lives, making for a truly compelling read. It will be of interest to scholars of all disciplines concerned with the history of women and gender in Islam.

Author : Julie Macfarlane
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199753911

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Islamic Divorce in North America by Julie Macfarlane Pdf

Based on hundreds of interviews, this book describes how Muslim marriage and divorce processes are used in North America, and what they mean to North American Muslims. It maps the emergence of a western shari'a that reflects not only religious but also cultural beliefs and Islamic family values in North America.

Author : Suzanne Kahn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812252903

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Divorce, American Style by Suzanne Kahn Pdf

"This book examines feminist divorce reformers, their relationship with the broader feminist movement, and their lasting effects on the American social welfare regime. It shows how the two distinctive qualities of the American welfare state-its gendered nature and its public/private nature-combined to encourage the breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage's use as policy tool. The linking of access to economic benefits to marriage, begun early in the development of the American social insurance system, shaped political identity and activism in the 1970s and has continued to do so into our current political moment. The result has not only affected policy questions directly relating to marriage but also limited the possibilities for expanding America's social welfare provisions. As a gateway to full economic citizenship, marriage has always served as an institution that protects and perpetuates class privilege"--

Author : Muhammad Abdel Haleem,M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857717658

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Understanding the Qur'an by Muhammad Abdel Haleem,M. A. S. Abdel Haleem Pdf

The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and nourishment - and for the first time sets these in the context of the Qur'an's linguistic style. Professor Haleem examines the background to the development of the surahs (chapters) and the ayahs (verses) and the construction of the Qur'an itself. He shows that popular conceptions of Islamic attitudes to women, marriage and divorce, war and society, differ radically from the true teachings of the Qur'an.

Author : Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Divorce (Islamic law)
ISBN : OCLC:23290999

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The Laws of Marriage and Divorce in Islam by Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi Pdf

Author : Amara Lakhous
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609453190

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The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea by Amara Lakhous Pdf

A fun and farcical novel, this new "whodunit" about life in multicultural Italy by Amara Lakhous will delight fans of Lakhous' earlier bestseller, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, and readers of novels such as The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany. Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Prank is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies. Lakhous draws inspiration from everyday reality, describing his approach to writing as "total literature," a term he has adapted from soccer's "total football." He plays in attack, describing in this work the realities of an Italy of the future with colorful characters portrayed in limpid but lively prose. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Maaike Voorhoeve
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857721273

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Family Law in Islam by Maaike Voorhoeve Pdf

In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly debated topic. In the Muslim World, the discussions at the heart of these debates are often primarily concerned with the extent to which classical Islamic family law should be implemented in the national legal system, and the impact this has on society. Family Law in Islam highlights these discussions by looking at public debates and legal practice. Using a range of contemporary examples, from polygamy to informal marriage (zawaj 'urfi), and from divorce with mutual agreement (khul') to judicial divorce (tatliq), this wide-ranging and penetrating volume explores the impact of Islamic law on individuals, families and society alike from Morocco to Egypt and from Syria to Iran. It thus contains material of vital importance for researchers of Islamic Law, Politics and Society in the Middle East and North Africa."

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674727502

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.