Abstract
The topic of gender and Islam in Southeast Asia has been much studied [...]
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Introduction to the SpecialIssue “Marriage, Intimacy, Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia” Maznah MohamadCitation: Mohamad, Maznah. 2021
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It is a field that has explored how gender inequality is entrenched through Islamic marriage—with its institution of polygamy (Nurmila 2009; Nurul Huda 2021), its persistent history of child marriage (Wu 2017), and its sanctioning of informal marriage and divorce today (Smith 2014; Platt 2017)
Summary
Introduction to the SpecialIssue “Marriage, Intimacy, Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia” Maznah Mohamad. This Special Issue of Religions addresses the question of marriage, intimacy, gender, and Islam in Southeast Asia by expanding the field of observation on gender and Islam to include hitherto unexamined textual materials, which have some powers to induce, sway, contemplate, or compel the exercise of certain gendered norms and behavior among Muslims.
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