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A Tale Of Three Families: Historical Households, Earned Belonging, And Natural Connections, Allison Anna Tait Jan 2012

A Tale Of Three Families: Historical Households, Earned Belonging, And Natural Connections, Allison Anna Tait

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The work of this Article is to present a new and synthetic reading of cases about wives, illegitimate children, and unwed fathers that follows these three logics, revealing how they weave together and why earned belonging provides the strongest support for Ginsburg's original vision of an equalized household.


Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri Jan 2009

Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

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A six-volume work, this set constitutes a major revision and massive expansion of the 1995 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. In addition to covering Islamic societies in the modern world from the eighteenth century to the present, as the earlier four-volume set did, it will add a depth of historical background going back to the pre- Islamic era. The new reference also covers the full geographical extent of Islam by focusing not only on the countries in which Islam is dominant, but also on regions in which Muslims live as minorities, such as Europe and the Americas.


Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri Jan 1995

Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

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This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World contains over 750 articles in four volumes on Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

An invaluable resource, the Encyclopedia offers extensive comparative and systematic analyses of Islamic beliefs, institutions, movements, practices, and peoples on an international scale. The alphabetically arranged articles range from brief 500-word essays to major interpretive and synthetic treatment …