Erin E Stiles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 108317 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erin E Stiles |
| PRENOMES | Erin E |
| SOBRENOME | Stiles |
| ASSINATURA | STILES E E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nevada, Reno |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Governance and Islam in East Africa
Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim theology, rituals and general welfare. Both these approaches are covered in this book, and a third is added – the study of Muslims as citizens or residents of their respective countries, looking at their activities and attitudes …
The Case of the Stubborn Heir
They have shown me what I need to know
Visits from spirits are common among Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in northern Utah, and most involve positive interactions with the spirits of helpful kin: the spirits of the deceased and of children not yet born. The spirit visits show that the Mormon cosmological notion of the eternal family is not simply abstract or something to imagine and long for in the afterlife. Rather, spirit members of the family are active in the world of the living, an…
The Evil Spirits Are Always Trying to Bring You Down”
This article explores contemporary Latter-day Saint conceptions of evil in northern Utah through considering both the lived experiences of spirits and the didactic tales of spirits that are a rich part of local folklore. Latter-day Saints are visited by both benevolent and malevolent spirits. These encounters with spirits are connected with local conceptions of “righteousness,” a moral framework that is centered on positive action. Malevolent spi…
Khulʿ
This special issue of Islamic Law and Society takes a close look at contemporary manifestations of an Islamic divorce procedure known as khulʿ . Studying khulʿ is not an easy matter, in large part because it is not exactly clear what khulʿ is. Is khulʿ consensual or non-consensual, judicial or extrajudicial, fault or no-fault based? Does khulʿ result in ṭalāq (unilateral repudiation by a husband), or is it an entirely different form of divorce? I…
It is Your Right to Buy a Divorce”
Judicial khuluu (<Ar. khulʿ ) in Zanzibar differs from judicial khulʿ in Arab countries that have recently introduced it through legislative reform. In Zanzibar’s Islamic courts, khuluu is used primarily as a judicial mechanism for ending a marriage when a judge determines a wife to be responsible for the breakdown of the marriage. Zanzibari women rarely file for khuluu because it is expensive and is associated with a woman’s failure in her marri…
Islamic Law, Gender, and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar, written by Elke E. Stockreiter, 2015
The Logic of Law Making in Islam
In The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition Behnam Sadeghi offers readers an intriguing way of thinking about Islamic law. In this clearly written book Sadeghi proposes a general model for understanding how Islamic jurists have reasoned. Essentially, he analyzes why some laws persist and some laws change. To do so, he considers the writings of thirty Hanafi jurists on questions of women and communal prayer from th…
The Right to Marry
In rural Zanzibar, both lay people and legal professionals argue that women’s options in marriage could be improved by closer adherence to Islamic law. This argument is usually made to critique the authority of elders in marriage negotiations. Although there is a strong norm of daughters adhering to elders’ authority in marriage, this norm does not go uncontested: by asserting rights under Islamic law, women critique and sometimes even challenge …
Shari'a Politics
Black Mecca
Kadhi, Court, and Anthropologist
One bright morning in December 1999, a young man named Abdulmalik came to an Islamic court in rural Zanzibar to ask for the return of his wife, Mariam. He told the judge, called a kadhi in Kiswahili, and the court clerks that Mariam left his home in a nearby village to live in Zanzibar Town with her sister. She refused to return to him because she claimed that he had divorced her through unilateral repudiation. A month earlier, he explained, Mari…
From Community to Court
One January morning, a gregarious woman named Shindano arrived at the court to ask for a receipt verifying that her husband, Abu Bakr, had divorced her. Shindano appeared to be about 60, wore a colorful kanga , and was barefoot. After waiting outside the courtroom on the steps for a short time, the clerks called her inside and asked her why she had come to court. Shindano told them about her husband’s many violations of his marital duties and the…
Witness and Authority
Shaykh Hamid was not the only voice of authority in the Mkokotoni court, and in this chapter, I look at the practice of witnessing to explore the way in which the kadhi utilized other modes of authority in the process of resolving disputes. The practice of witnessing had a dual nature in Shaykh Hamid’s court. Through giving testimony, a witness ( mshahidi , pl. washahidi ) produced evidence. Also, as a procedural step, witnessing reflected state,…
A Wily Wife and a Headstrong Husband
In this chapter, we continue to look at disputes about alleged out-of-court divorces. Now, however, we turn our attention to cases in which the dispute centered not on whether a divorce occurred, but whether the divorce-action was valid. In Shaykh Hamid’s court, establishing the validity of divorce-related action was not simply a matter of determining whether it had taken place, but hinged on whether the proper intention was behind it. Intention,…
Conclusion
Throughout the book, I have attempted to demonstrate how Zanzibari kadhis , clerks, and litigants define, understand, and utilize Islamic law in one working court in one particular cultural context. Many states today make provisions for the application of Islamic family law. As in Zanzibar, it is often circumscribed by state law, and those who apply the law, like kadhis , are beholden to the state legal system and, in many cases, a family law cod…
Writing a Case
I conducted most of my research in the court in the fishing village of Mkokotoni, which is pleasantly situated by a small bay. In Kiswahili, the word mkokotoni means “at the place of the mangroves,” and indeed many mangroves grew in the shallow turquoise waters. Although Mkokotoni is not on the main road north, people from town often come to the market there because it is known for a fine selection of fresh fish. On any given day, the market vend…
Buying Divorce through Khuluu
A kadhi must navigate between his understanding of Islamic law, secular state law, and local practices of marriage and divorce, and in this chapter I explore the way in which Shaykh Hamid understood and utilized one type of Islamic divorce, khuluu (Ar. khul’ ) vis-à-vis local cultural norms of marriage and divorce. Scholars have sometimes characterized khul’ as a divorce by mutual consent (e.g., Esposito 2001), and others have described it as div…
An Islamic Court in Context
Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and
Law and Power in the Islamic World
Book Review| May 01 2008 Law and Power in the Islamic World Law and Power in the Islamic World Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Erin Stiles Erin Stiles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 212–213. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-066 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
Broken Edda and Marital Mistakes
Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change
Reviewed by: Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis Erin E. Stiles Ilahiane, Hsain . 2004. Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 248 pp. $35.00 (cloth). In this work, Hsain Ilahiane explores the relationship between ethnicity and agricultural intensification through anthropological research…
There is no Stranger to Marriage Here
In Zanzibar, many cases in rural Islamic courts involve disputes about whether or not a divorce has taken place outside of court. Zanzibari men have the right to divorce their wives unilaterally through repudiation; and, because many such divorces take place out of the wife's presence, women interpret certain structural events associated with divorce as divorce even when there is no evidence of lawful repudiation. By going to court, women want to…
When Is a Divorce a Divorce? Determining Intention in Zanzibar's Islamic Courts
Establishing intention in legal acts is crucial element of judicial reasoning in Zanzibar's Islamic courts. This article explores how Islamic judges determine the validity of divorce-related actions through assessing the intention of the actors involved. Examining two recent cases from court in rural Zanzibar demonstrates how judge determines the intention behind actions. The judge considers the range of possible meanings of divorce-related actio…
An Islamic Court in Context
Introduction: Kahdi , Court, and Anthropologist Writing a Case: Court Actors and Court Procedure From Community to Court: Gendered Experience of Divorce Allegations of Repudiation: Determining Intention in Disputed Divorce Witnessing and Authority in the Court: Elders, Shaykhs, and Shehas Money Matters: Khului Divorce in Context Conclusion: The Court is a Hospital
An Islamic Court in Context
Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and
There is no Stranger to Marriage Here
In Zanzibar, many cases in rural Islamic courts involve disputes about whether or not a divorce has taken place outside of court. Zanzibari men have the right to divorce their wives unilaterally through repudiation; and, because many such divorces take place out of the wife's presence, women interpret certain structural events associated with divorce as divorce even when there is no evidence of lawful repudiation. By going to court, women want to…
When Is a Divorce a Divorce? Determining Intention in Zanzibar's Islamic Courts
Establishing intention in legal acts is crucial element of judicial reasoning in Zanzibar's Islamic courts. This article explores how Islamic judges determine the validity of divorce-related actions through assessing the intention of the actors involved. Examining two recent cases from court in rural Zanzibar demonstrates how judge determines the intention behind actions. The judge considers the range of possible meanings of divorce-related actio…
Law and Power in the Islamic World
Book Review| May 01 2008 Law and Power in the Islamic World Law and Power in the Islamic World Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Erin Stiles Erin Stiles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 212–213. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-066 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Adeline Masquelier. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 352 pp
They have shown me what I need to know
Visits from spirits are common among Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in northern Utah, and most involve positive interactions with the spirits of helpful kin: the spirits of the deceased and of children not yet born. The spirit visits show that the Mormon cosmological notion of the eternal family is not simply abstract or something to imagine and long for in the afterlife. Rather, spirit members of the family are active in the world of the living, an…
The Evil Spirits Are Always Trying to Bring You Down”
This article explores contemporary Latter-day Saint conceptions of evil in northern Utah through considering both the lived experiences of spirits and the didactic tales of spirits that are a rich part of local folklore. Latter-day Saints are visited by both benevolent and malevolent spirits. These encounters with spirits are connected with local conceptions of “righteousness,” a moral framework that is centered on positive action. Malevolent spi…
Khulʿ
This special issue of Islamic Law and Society takes a close look at contemporary manifestations of an Islamic divorce procedure known as khulʿ . Studying khulʿ is not an easy matter, in large part because it is not exactly clear what khulʿ is. Is khulʿ consensual or non-consensual, judicial or extrajudicial, fault or no-fault based? Does khulʿ result in ṭalāq (unilateral repudiation by a husband), or is it an entirely different form of divorce? I…
The Right to Marry
In rural Zanzibar, both lay people and legal professionals argue that women’s options in marriage could be improved by closer adherence to Islamic law. This argument is usually made to critique the authority of elders in marriage negotiations. Although there is a strong norm of daughters adhering to elders’ authority in marriage, this norm does not go uncontested: by asserting rights under Islamic law, women critique and sometimes even challenge …
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Adeline Masquelier. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 352 pp
When Is a Divorce a Divorce? Determining Intention in Zanzibar's Islamic Courts
Establishing intention in legal acts is crucial element of judicial reasoning in Zanzibar's Islamic courts. This article explores how Islamic judges determine the validity of divorce-related actions through assessing the intention of the actors involved. Examining two recent cases from court in rural Zanzibar demonstrates how judge determines the intention behind actions. The judge considers the range of possible meanings of divorce-related actio…
There is no Stranger to Marriage Here
In Zanzibar, many cases in rural Islamic courts involve disputes about whether or not a divorce has taken place outside of court. Zanzibari men have the right to divorce their wives unilaterally through repudiation; and, because many such divorces take place out of the wife's presence, women interpret certain structural events associated with divorce as divorce even when there is no evidence of lawful repudiation. By going to court, women want to…
Broken Edda and Marital Mistakes
Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change
Reviewed by: Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis Erin E. Stiles Ilahiane, Hsain . 2004. Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 248 pp. $35.00 (cloth). In this work, Hsain Ilahiane explores the relationship between ethnicity and agricultural intensification through anthropological research…
Law and Power in the Islamic World
Book Review| May 01 2008 Law and Power in the Islamic World Law and Power in the Islamic World Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Erin Stiles Erin Stiles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 212–213. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-066 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
Kadhi, Court, and Anthropologist
One bright morning in December 1999, a young man named Abdulmalik came to an Islamic court in rural Zanzibar to ask for the return of his wife, Mariam. He told the judge, called a kadhi in Kiswahili, and the court clerks that Mariam left his home in a nearby village to live in Zanzibar Town with her sister. She refused to return to him because she claimed that he had divorced her through unilateral repudiation. A month earlier, he explained, Mari…
From Community to Court
One January morning, a gregarious woman named Shindano arrived at the court to ask for a receipt verifying that her husband, Abu Bakr, had divorced her. Shindano appeared to be about 60, wore a colorful kanga , and was barefoot. After waiting outside the courtroom on the steps for a short time, the clerks called her inside and asked her why she had come to court. Shindano told them about her husband’s many violations of his marital duties and the…
Witness and Authority
Shaykh Hamid was not the only voice of authority in the Mkokotoni court, and in this chapter, I look at the practice of witnessing to explore the way in which the kadhi utilized other modes of authority in the process of resolving disputes. The practice of witnessing had a dual nature in Shaykh Hamid’s court. Through giving testimony, a witness ( mshahidi , pl. washahidi ) produced evidence. Also, as a procedural step, witnessing reflected state,…
A Wily Wife and a Headstrong Husband
In this chapter, we continue to look at disputes about alleged out-of-court divorces. Now, however, we turn our attention to cases in which the dispute centered not on whether a divorce occurred, but whether the divorce-action was valid. In Shaykh Hamid’s court, establishing the validity of divorce-related action was not simply a matter of determining whether it had taken place, but hinged on whether the proper intention was behind it. Intention,…
Conclusion
Throughout the book, I have attempted to demonstrate how Zanzibari kadhis , clerks, and litigants define, understand, and utilize Islamic law in one working court in one particular cultural context. Many states today make provisions for the application of Islamic family law. As in Zanzibar, it is often circumscribed by state law, and those who apply the law, like kadhis , are beholden to the state legal system and, in many cases, a family law cod…
Writing a Case
I conducted most of my research in the court in the fishing village of Mkokotoni, which is pleasantly situated by a small bay. In Kiswahili, the word mkokotoni means “at the place of the mangroves,” and indeed many mangroves grew in the shallow turquoise waters. Although Mkokotoni is not on the main road north, people from town often come to the market there because it is known for a fine selection of fresh fish. On any given day, the market vend…
Buying Divorce through Khuluu
A kadhi must navigate between his understanding of Islamic law, secular state law, and local practices of marriage and divorce, and in this chapter I explore the way in which Shaykh Hamid understood and utilized one type of Islamic divorce, khuluu (Ar. khul’ ) vis-à-vis local cultural norms of marriage and divorce. Scholars have sometimes characterized khul’ as a divorce by mutual consent (e.g., Esposito 2001), and others have described it as div…
An Islamic Court in Context
Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and
Black Mecca
Shari'a Politics
The Right to Marry
In rural Zanzibar, both lay people and legal professionals argue that women’s options in marriage could be improved by closer adherence to Islamic law. This argument is usually made to critique the authority of elders in marriage negotiations. Although there is a strong norm of daughters adhering to elders’ authority in marriage, this norm does not go uncontested: by asserting rights under Islamic law, women critique and sometimes even challenge …
The Logic of Law Making in Islam
In The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition Behnam Sadeghi offers readers an intriguing way of thinking about Islamic law. In this clearly written book Sadeghi proposes a general model for understanding how Islamic jurists have reasoned. Essentially, he analyzes why some laws persist and some laws change. To do so, he considers the writings of thirty Hanafi jurists on questions of women and communal prayer from th…
Islamic Law, Gender, and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar, written by Elke E. Stockreiter, 2015
It is Your Right to Buy a Divorce”
Judicial khuluu (<Ar. khulʿ ) in Zanzibar differs from judicial khulʿ in Arab countries that have recently introduced it through legislative reform. In Zanzibar’s Islamic courts, khuluu is used primarily as a judicial mechanism for ending a marriage when a judge determines a wife to be responsible for the breakdown of the marriage. Zanzibari women rarely file for khuluu because it is expensive and is associated with a woman’s failure in her marri…
Khulʿ
This special issue of Islamic Law and Society takes a close look at contemporary manifestations of an Islamic divorce procedure known as khulʿ . Studying khulʿ is not an easy matter, in large part because it is not exactly clear what khulʿ is. Is khulʿ consensual or non-consensual, judicial or extrajudicial, fault or no-fault based? Does khulʿ result in ṭalāq (unilateral repudiation by a husband), or is it an entirely different form of divorce? I…
The Evil Spirits Are Always Trying to Bring You Down”
This article explores contemporary Latter-day Saint conceptions of evil in northern Utah through considering both the lived experiences of spirits and the didactic tales of spirits that are a rich part of local folklore. Latter-day Saints are visited by both benevolent and malevolent spirits. These encounters with spirits are connected with local conceptions of “righteousness,” a moral framework that is centered on positive action. Malevolent spi…
They have shown me what I need to know
Visits from spirits are common among Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in northern Utah, and most involve positive interactions with the spirits of helpful kin: the spirits of the deceased and of children not yet born. The spirit visits show that the Mormon cosmological notion of the eternal family is not simply abstract or something to imagine and long for in the afterlife. Rather, spirit members of the family are active in the world of the living, an…
Governance and Islam in East Africa
Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim theology, rituals and general welfare. Both these approaches are covered in this book, and a third is added – the study of Muslims as citizens or residents of their respective countries, looking at their activities and attitudes …
The Case of the Stubborn Heir
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