Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Islam, Culture and Society

Julie McBrien is associate professor 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 of the social-scientific study of Muslim Societies, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.

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 Ceutäs Convivenciä : 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
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