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This book focuses on Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, Australia and North America. It uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, dower, polygamy, and divorce - are adjudicated. The solutions proposed by different legal systems are reviewed , and some broader questions are addressed: how Islamic principles are harmonized with norms based on gender equality, how parties bargain strategically in and out of court, and how Muslim diasporas align their Islamic worldview with a Western normative narrative.SommairePreface1. Muslim Family Law and Legal Practice in the West: An IntroductionElisa Giunchi2. Shari‘a in the West: Colonial Consciousness in a Context of Normative CompetitionPrakash Shah 3. Please Divorce Me! Subversive Agency, Resistance and Gendered Religious ScriptsPascale Fournier 4. Judicial Encounters with Islamic and Middle Eastern Family Law in Switzerland from a Private International Law Perspective – Marriage and DivorceAndrea Büchler and Amira Latif5. The Recognition of Transnational Muslim Marriages and Divorces by Norwegian Courts and Other Competent Authorities: Dynamics Between Legislation and Legal PracticeKatja Jansen Fredriksen6. Islamic Family Law in the Courts: Spain’s Position with Regard to the Moroccan Family CodeAnna Quiñones Escámez7. An Analysis of British Judicial Treatment of Islamic Divorces, 1997 - 2009Denise Helly and Al-Rahim Moosa8. Can there be a Compromise? Australia's State of Confusion Regarding Shari‘a Family LawAnn Black9. Islamic Family Law in American Courts: A Rich, Diverse and Evolving JurisprudenceAbed Awad&#160;