Khalid M Al-Azri

Social and Gender Inequality in Oman

The Power of Religious and Political Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women's rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415672412
• ISBN-10: 0415672414
• Artikelnr.: 32922382

Autorenporträt

Khalid M. Al-Azri is a Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, the University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. 'Doing Gender' in Uncharted Territory 2. Omani Contexts: Shaping
of the Al Sa'id Policy 3. Islamic Law: Conceptual Framework of the Study 4.
The Scholarly Dabate on Kafa'a and Socio-Economic Change 5. Change and
Conflict: Kafa'a in Marriage in Contemporary Omani Society 6. One or Three?
Talaq and Triple Talaq at One Time: Pre-Modern Islamic Argument and Modern
Practice 7. Dilemma of Talaq in Oman 8. Arrested Development: The Omani
State and the Question of Cultural Identity 9. Gender, Tribe and Religion
in Post-1970 Oman 10. Time of Uncertainty