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Series Foreword / by Péter Berta -- Preface (Acknowledgment) -- 1. Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First Century Practice / by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin -- Part I. State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations: 2. Divorce by Khulʻ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women's Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority / by Elisa Giunchi -- 3. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary / by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron -- 4. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa / by Fatima Essop -- Part II. Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing: 5. Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: The Judicial Practices of Divorce on the Ground of Sexual Dissatisfaction within Indonesian Religious Courts / by Ayang Utriza Yakin -- 6. "I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me": Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce In Accra, Ghana / by Fulera Issaka-Toure -- 7. Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family Courts / by Jean-Michel Landry -- Part III. Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies: 8. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce and Gender Relations in Mali / by Dorothea Schulz and Souleymane Diallo -- 9. A 'Much-Married Woman' Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China / by Rune Steenberg -- 10. The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India / by Katherine Lemons with Nadia Hussein -- Afterword: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field and Concluding Thoughts / by Erin E. Stiles with Ayang Utriza Yakin -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.