Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism

Author/Contributor(s):	Lemons, Katherine
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	03/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian...