Lived Experiences of Norway’s Regulation of<i>Mahr</i>(the Muslim Dower)

Bøe, Marianne

doi:10.18261/issn.1890-7008-2018-01-04

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“…There are, however, some studies that address how the dower may function as an identity marker in minority contexts, even if in very different settings and with different effects than that of Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands. Bøe (2018Bøe ( , 2021 shows how secular Iranians in Norway register a mahr as they consider this as part of their Iranian cultural heritage and as a sign of national belonging. In Oman, shia Muslims, who constitute a religious minority, use dower registrations and practices to differentiate themselves from the Sunni-Ibadi majority (Safar 2021).…”

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Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage

2023

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Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, media personalities, and women’s activists discuss, promote, or reject unregistered, transnational, interreligious and other boundary-crossing marriages. Couples entering into such marriages, however, often have different concerns from those publicly discussed. Based on ethnographic research in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, the chapters of this volume examine couples’ motivations for, aspirations about, and abilities to enter into these marriages. The contributions show the diverse ways in which such marriages are concluded, and inquire into how they are performed, authorized or contested as Muslim marriages. These marriages may challenge existing ties of belonging and transform boundaries between religious and other communities, but they may also, and sometimes simultaneously, reproduce and solidify them. Building on insights from different disciplines, both from the social sciences (anthropology, political science, gender and sexuality studies) and from the humanities (history, Islamic legal studies, religious studies), the authors address a wide range of controversial Muslim marriages (unregistered, interreligious, transnational, etc.), and include the views of religious scholars, state authorities, and political actors and activists, as well as the couples themselves, their families, and their wider social circle.

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Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage

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Mélange Familism and Family Law: The Law in Everyday Lives of Single Mothers/Women

Mehdi

2023

Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe

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Contesting the Boundaries between Civil and Religious Marriage

Bredal

2018

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This article discusses the relation between civil and religious marriage, at the interface between the state’s legal discourse and the discourses and practices of Norwegian mosques. A central question is what kinds of effects the governance of Islam in Norway has had in the field of marriage. Against the background of political debates on the system of marriage authorization of faith communities, the analysis draws on interviews with public officials and administrative leaders of mosques, the majority of whom are authorized to perform legal marriage. While the Norwegian state concept of marriage authorization is based on a separation of the civil act and the religious act, mosque administrators rather highlight the similarity and continuity between the two. Contrary to state concerns, though, the analysis suggests that the civil marriages have affected the religious, rather than vice versa. What is interesting is that this reasoning actually results in Norwegian marriage certificates replacing or suppressing the Islamic marriage contract, although agreements on mahr (dower) are still made more informally. Thus, our findings suggest that there has been a secularizing effect.

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Lived Experiences of Norway’s Regulation ofMahr(the Muslim Dower)

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage

Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage

Mélange Familism and Family Law: The Law in Everyday Lives of Single Mothers/Women

Contesting the Boundaries between Civil and Religious Marriage

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