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

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

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