Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage
Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life
Samenvatting
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.
Building on insights from different disciplines, both from the social sciences (anthropology, political science, gender and sexuality studies) and from the humanities (history, Islamic legal studies, religious studies), the authors address a wide range of controversial Muslim marriages (unregistered, interreligious, transnational, etc.), and include the views of religious scholars, state authorities, and political actors and activists, as well as the couples themselves, their families, and their wider social circle.
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Introduction
Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Religion, Politics, and Intimate Life
Annelies Moors and Julie McBrien
Part I—The Politicization of Marriage: Problematization, Agency, and Activism
Troublesome Marriages and the Politics of the Future in Kyrgyzstan
Julie McBrien
Problematizing Early Marriages : Development Narratives and Refugee Experiences in Jordan
Dina Zbeidy
The Politics of Cohesion : Salafi Preachers and the Problematization of Muslim Marriages in the Netherlands
Martijn de Koning
Palestinian Women Prisoners : The Relational Politics of Incarceration, Marriage, and Separation
Samah Saleh and Annelies Moors
Part II—The Micro-politics of (Non-)marriage: Intimacy, Materiality, and Social Transformation
Cohabitation and ‘Urfi Marriages in Tunisia : Public Discourse and Personal Narratives
Iris Kolman
Exceptionally Ordinary: Singling out Single Mothers in Morocco
Annerienke Fioole
Configuring Communities: The Materialities of Dubai’s Migrant Marriages
Joud Alkorani
The Dower among Moroccan Muslims in the Netherlands : Generational and Gendered Shifts
Loubna el Morabet
When Islamic Marriage Travels to the Netherlands : Convert Muslim Women (Re)Signifying the Marriage Guardian and the Dower
Annelies Moors and Vanessa Vroon-Najem
Part III—Interfaith Marriage: Religious Difference and Multiple Positionalities
The Intimate Politics of Publicly Staging “Mixed Couples” : The Gendered Racialization of a Poster Campaign
Shifra Kisch, Rahma Bavelaar, and Annelies Moors
“We are an Example of Ceuta’s Convivencia” : Muslim–Christian Marriages at Europe’s North-African Border
Ibtisam Sadegh
Interfaith Marriages in Indonesia : Between the Law, State Ideology, and Progressive Muslim Voices
Eva F. Nisa
Contracting Coptic-Muslim Marriage in Egypt : Class, Gender, and Clerical Mediation in the Administrative Management of Religious “Crossings”
Rahma Bavelaar
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