Series ForewordPiter BertaPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First-Century PracticeErin E. StilesAyang Utriza YakinPART ONE State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations1 Divorce by khul in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women's Rights through Reconfiguring Religious AuthorityElisa Giunchi2 Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian JudiciaryNathalie Bernard-Maugiron3 Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South AfricaFatima EssopPART TWO Gendered Strategies and judicial Responses in Marital Disputing4 Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: Divorce on Grounds of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Indonesian Religious CourtsAyang Utriza Yakin5 Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me": Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Accra, GhanaFulera Issaka-Toure6 Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family CourtsJean-Michel LandryPART THREE Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies7 Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in MaliDorothea SchulzSouleymane Diallo8 A "Much-Married Woman" Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, ChinaRune Steenberg9 The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in IndiaKatherine LemonsNadia HussainConclusion: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the FieldErin E. StilesAyang Utriza YakinNotes on ContributorsIndex