{"product_id":"divorcing-traditions-islamic-marriage-law-and-the-making-of-indian-secularism-paperback-softback-9781501734779","title":"Divorcing Traditions; Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501734779","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDivorcing Traditions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIslamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatherine Lemons (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501734779\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivorcing Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e makes a valuable contribution to understanding the relationships between religion, kinship, and personal law. Lemons' case study brings to the fore the place of minority differences in the practices of secularism.\u003c\/p\u003e (PoLAR) \u003cp\u003eLemon's book meticulously points to the double labour Indian Muslims must perform under the sign of the Indian secular... \u003ci\u003eDivorcing Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and groundbreaking contribution to the study of Indian politics, to legal history and anthropology, and women's and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e (Political Theology Journal) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivorcing Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent work that challenges the discussion on divorce by islamic and religious scholars and can stimulate new reflections and more cautious judgements about practiced Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e (Anthropos) \u003cp\u003eThis ethnographic account of Muslim practices of dispute resolution through non-state institutions is highly relevant in understanding India's plural and diverse identity. The book also critically assesses \"with what effects the state recognizes\" these Islamic legal forums, demonstrating the continuous interactions of society, law, and religion that shapes India's legal pluralism and secularism.\u003c\/p\u003e (Marriage, Families \u0026amp; Spirituality)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivorcing Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions—NGO-run women's arbitration centers (\u003ci\u003emahila panchayats\u003c\/i\u003e); sharia courts (\u003ci\u003edar ul-qazas\u003c\/i\u003e); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (\u003ci\u003efatwas\u003c\/i\u003e); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (\u003ci\u003emufti\u003c\/i\u003e) calls \"spiritual healing\"—\u003ci\u003eDivorcing Traditions \u003c\/i\u003eshows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607781994776,"sku":"9781501734779","price":22.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/divorcing-traditions-islamic-marriage-law-and-the-making-of-indian-secularism-paperback-softback-9781501734779","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}