This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
YAFA SHANNEIK is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK. ANNELIES MOORS is an anthropologist and professor emerita at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Inhaltsangabe
Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction ANNELIES MOORS AND YAFA SHANNEIK PART ONE Gender and Generation: New Dating and Marriage Practices 1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives MARY ELAINE HEGLAND 2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion ANNA-MARIA WALTER PART TWO Dower Practices: Signifying Religion, Ethnicity, and Class 3 The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shi‘a of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity JIHAN SAFAR 4 Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shia Marriage Practices PART THREE Temporary Marriage: A Flexible and Controversial Institution 5 Mut¿a Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shi‘i Environment of Indonesia EVA F. NISA 6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students’ Discourse in the Netherlands about Sigheh SOPHIE-YVIE GIRARD 7 “Laboratory Sigheh”: The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran TARA ASGARILALEH AND ANNELIES MOORS Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction ANNELIES MOORS AND YAFA SHANNEIK PART ONE Gender and Generation: New Dating and Marriage Practices 1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives MARY ELAINE HEGLAND 2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion ANNA-MARIA WALTER PART TWO Dower Practices: Signifying Religion, Ethnicity, and Class 3 The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shi‘a of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity JIHAN SAFAR 4 Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shia Marriage Practices PART THREE Temporary Marriage: A Flexible and Controversial Institution 5 Mut¿a Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shi‘i Environment of Indonesia EVA F. NISA 6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students’ Discourse in the Netherlands about Sigheh SOPHIE-YVIE GIRARD 7 “Laboratory Sigheh”: The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran TARA ASGARILALEH AND ANNELIES MOORS Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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