Social and Gender Inequality in Oman : The Power of Religious and Political Tradition.
Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women's rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establ...
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| Imprint: | London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. |
| Series: | Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Social and Gender Inequality in Oman : |b The Power of Religious and Political Tradition. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Social and Gender Inequality in Oman -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on transliteration and acknowledgment of publication -- 1 'Doing gender' in uncharted territory -- Scope of the study -- Directions and significance -- Approaching the study of gender in Oman -- Challenges of fieldwork research -- Fieldwork difficulties -- Structure of the book -- 2 Omani contexts: shaping of the Al Sa'id policy -- Introduction: isolation and underdevelopment -- The interior of Oman: tribes and religion -- The capital and the coast -- Present society: geography, population and politics -- Oman: the 1970 'renaissance' and the problem of' backwardness' -- Oil and social change -- Kafa'a and talaq: overview of the legacies of traditional culture -- 3 Islamic law Conceptual framework of the study -- Introduction -- Islamic law: a brief historical background -- Islamic law and the challenge of modernity -- Ibadi profile, struggle for survival and equality -- Omani society and the challenge of modernity -- 4 The scholarly debate on kafa'a and socio-economicchange -- Introduction -- Historical sketch: the law and socio-economic reality -- Kafa'a: definition, justification and application -- Kafa'a according to the Hanafis -- Kafa'a: the opinion of other Islamic schools -- Oman: identities, stigma and kafa'a -- Slavery and other influential cultural aspects -- Religious discussion and social conflict -- 5 Change and conflictKafa'a in marriage in contemporary Omani society -- Introduction -- Papering over the cracks: the statist unification project after 1970 -- Kafa'a in the courts: conflict of cultural values -- The symbiosis of kafa'a and talaq -- Unproductive tension: Basic Law and Personal Status Law -- Kafa'a at an impasse: change and resistance to change. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6 One or three? Talaq and tripletalaq at one time Pre-modern Islamic argumentand modern practice -- Introduction -- Talaq and its divisions -- Proper and wrongful -- Revocable and irrevocable -- Three or one talaq -- Triple talaq and the impact of social change -- Three talaq: modern views and social change -- 7 The dilemma of talaq in Oman -- Introduction -- Talaq in society and its implications -- The dowry -- Spinsterhood -- Responsibility and women's nature -- First group: the traditionalists -- Second group: the reformers -- Legal challenge: the case of triple talaq -- Responsibility and women's status -- Resolving the problems of talaq -- Talaq: the state and traditional Omani culture -- 8 Arrested developmentThe Omani state and the questionof cultural identity -- Introduction -- The struggle between the Imama and the Sultanate (1920-1955) -- War of Dhofar (1962-1970) -- Theocracy, monarchy, socialism and Oman's modernity -- Alliance of necessity: the state and Islam since 1970 -- The position of the Mufti General of the State -- Legitimacy through development: post-1970 discourse -- The rise of Islamic discourse and the age of Omani culture -- Renewal of the Imama in the twenty-first century -- Secrecy and the Islamization of society -- Conclusion -- 9 Gender, tribe and religionin post-1970 Oman -- Introduction -- The struggle for modernization and the role of women -- Religious discourse and illiberal society -- Ibadi views on gender -- Alexis Carrel: honest and dishonest knowledge -- Veneers of progress: the contemporary state and the roles of women -- Under the mask: students' suspicions of state rhetoric -- National security, cultural and legal constraints on women's freedoms -- Roots of inequality: traditional conceptual supportfor state power -- 10 A time of uncertainty -- Introduction -- Patriarchy, authoritarian and absolutism. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a More than a dilemma over 'equality' -- Ibadi thought and change -- Kafa'a and equality -- Talaq in Oman -- Equality -- The alternative to reform is anarchy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women's rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establishment of legal instruments guaranteeing equality for all citizens, the fact that the state depends upon Islamic and tribal elites for its legitimacy invalidates these guarantees in practice. Two particular features of the legal and cultural regulation of marriage and marital rights are focused on - the perceived requirement for kafa'a or equality in marriage between so called high and low socio-economic status peoples is examined, and the institution of talaq, which grants greater rights to men than to women in appeals for divorce. This book addresses highly complex subjects with great rigor, in terms of empirical research and engagement with theory, sociological and political as well as theological and legal. It is an interesting investigation of the divisions of authority between the state, Islam and tribal norms, highlighting barriers to reform in both Oman and wider Islamic society, and advocating the removal of such obstacles. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Women -- Oman -- Social conditions. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Equality -- Oman. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Oman -- Social conditions. | |
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