Rewriting divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, legal activism, and coalition politics

Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-188

  Singerman, Diane ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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