...Maryam Zehtabi Abstract Child marriage, the union between a child below the age of consent and a spouse who is the same age or older, remains a prevalent practice in Iran. Often these marriages involve young girls betrothed to much older men as a result of economic arrangements between the girl’s...

... insightful re ections on the internal and external con icts shaping women s experiences of love and desire. Another piece in this collection speci cally addressing the challenges faced by Iranian women is Maryam Zehtabi s Child Marriage in Hitaw (1973) by Ali Ashraf Darvishiyan and M d¯ y n (1986...

...). Other AIU sources gave a different argument against child marriage: that a Jewish girl who was too young when she had children would not exercise sufficient authority over them. In other words, untrained Jewish women would not adequately perform the role the AIU assigned them of disciplining their sons...

... timeless registers, yet they are magnified due to her age status and rural Otherness and the distinctions associated with them: confinement in the home, lack of education, exposure to child marriage and abuse, perpetual poverty and unremitting under-development. A newly published book poignantly il...

... Child Law (UNICEF 2017 ). Often, in the larger Egyptian society, child marriage is associated with girls’ lack of education or the perception that girls’ role in society is to start bearing children as early as possible. However, among Ghagar, again, the slightly divergent rationale presented in our...

... of the apparently fundamental changes we are witnessing with regard to family and gender relations? THE MODERN VIEW OF EARLY MARRIAGE “Early” or “child” marriage, whereby either or both the bride and groom (usually the bride) is under the age of eighteen3 remains con- tentious...

... to al-Ramli for his opinion. Al-Ramli ( 1857 , 2: 207–8) ruled child marriage inadvisable in such cases, but the marriage itself valid (see also Scalenghe 2014 , 143–44). Al-Ramli’s fatwas may have positioned him as the ideal wise jurist, and he may have preferred to assign binary sex, but, along...

..., domestic laborers, laundresses, matchmakers, spinners, weavers, nannies, midwives, healers, preachers, dancers, singers, public bath attendants, mortuary workers, and prostitutes. Prostitution was widespread; so were temporary and child marriages. Girls as young as nine were sold or given in temporary...

... without any plausible reason and will obtain it too easily” (ibid.). It seems therefore that, like British colonial legislation against child marriage in India, the Centenary Laws prioritized paternalist rescue over meaningful support for Kabyle women (Sinha 1987 ). Only a year after the passage...

..., and Family. In 2015 the Constitutional Court decriminalized religious marriage unaccompanied by civil marriage “despite the widely held view that this would encourage child marriages and further polarise Turkish society along the laicism-Islamism divide” (Çelik and İşeri 2016 : 450). The government...

... for paternity verification. However, following dominant opinions in Islamic jurisprudence ( fiqh ), legal filiation of a child with a father is assumed only if he is the mother’s husband, so the child is considered a product of the “marriage bed” ( al-walad li-l-firash ). The International Islamic Fiqh Academy...

... that the man should recognize his relationship with the woman, not just with his child. Regardless, DNA testing in Morocco is not enough to establish paternal filiation, since a legal marriage and not biological paternity determines legitimate filiation. In a 2017 court case a mother sought child support from...

... from another man2 (Clarke 2006; 2007; 2008). Furthermore, because a married Shia Muslim woman cannot marry another man other than her husband (since polyandry is illegal in Islam), she cannot contract a mut‘a marriage with a sperm donor to make the donation legal. Th e child born...

...” (marriage, divorce, inheritance, child custody), leaving criminal, commercial, and administrative matters to be adjudicated on the basis of Western legal codes. Kholoussy also shows how the dynamic ele- ments of shari‘a still regnant in the colonial era and in the more limited domain of personal...

... and ideologies. Moreover, she argues, personal status laws, which regulate marriage, divorce, inheritance, and child custody, are the key mode by which Middle Eastern states incorporate subnational communities and religious sects into “juridical communities” and regulate women’s sexuality to reproduce both sect...

...Sara Pursley This article discusses the writings of Amina bint Haydar al-Sadr, a prolific Shi‘i intellectual and novelist in Najaf during the 1960s and 1970s more commonly known by her pen name Bint al-Huda (“Daughter of the Right Path”). It examines the author’s ambivalence about marriage...

... within the community, the article shows that nationalist and religious discourses produced by the historical contexts respectively stimulated (semi)arranged in-group marriages in the 1990s and self-initiated exogamous marriages as of the early 2000s. Among the group, Islam has become the primary form...

...), and should instead focus on enforcing contracts related to fulfilling children’s developmen- tal needs (157). In more recent work, Stevens (2010, 180 – 3) elaborates that marriage law should be replaced with parenting contracts for the mother-child dyad, with “mother” broadly defined...

... . 2014 . “ The Right to Adequate Housing: Palestinian Single Mothers in Israel ” (in Hebrew). Israeli Sociology 15 , no. 2 : 336 – 59 . Nelson Margaret K. 2006 . “ Single Mothers ‘Do’ Family .” Journal of Marriage and Family 68 , no. 4 : 781 – 95 . Poper-Givon Ariela...

... by his family members to “see his child,” he undertook a brief polygynous marriage to a second wife, who bore a daughter in 2001.6 He kept the marriage and the child secret from his wife, stating, “I’m very loyal. I’ve been married for 17 years, and I’ve had no other women except...