Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages

Series Foreword by Peter Berta
Introduction
ANNELIES MOORS AND YAFA SHANNEIK

PART ONE
Gender and Generation: New Dating and Marriage Practices
1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives
MARY ELAINE HEGLAND
2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion
ANNA-MARIA WALTER

PART TWO
Dower Practices: Signifying Religion, Ethnicity, and Class
3 The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shi'a of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity
JIHAN SAFAR
4 Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shia Marriage Practices

PART THREE
Temporary Marriage: A Flexible and Controversial Institution
5 Mut?a Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shi'i Environment of Indonesia
EVA F. NISA
6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students' Discourse in the Netherlands about Sigheh
SOPHIE-YVIE GIRARD

7 "Laboratory Sigheh": The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran
TARA ASGARILALEH AND ANNELIES MOORS

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index

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religion; gender; Sh'ia; Sh'ia Muslim; Islam; Muslim marriage; Muslim minority; Sunni Muslims; Iran; Pakistan; Oman; Indonesia; Norway; the Netherlands; marriage practices; Muslim practices; middle east; middle east studies; Muslim culture; tradition; marriage; dating; Muslim dating; Shia marriage; temporary marriage