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Book SynopsisDivorcing Traditions 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. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian...
Trade ReviewDivorcing Traditions 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.
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Lemon's book meticulously points to the double labour Indian Muslims must perform under the sign of the Indian secular... Divorcing Traditions is a timely and groundbreaking contribution to the study of Indian politics, to legal history and anthropology, and women's and gender studies.
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Divorcing Traditions 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.
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