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Perspectives and practices of couples in unconventional Muslim marriages.

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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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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.

Biografie

Julie McBrien is Associate Pofessor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, both at the University of Amsterdam. Annelies Moors is Professor Emerita at the University of Amsterdam, where she held the Chair for the Social-scientific study of Muslim Societies at the Department of Anthropology.

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Acknowledgements 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 About the authors

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