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ajiss-1902	Babana-Hampton, Safoi	States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco by Mounira M Charrad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 341 pages.)	2002.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	376	10	24	Even though Islamic family law and Islamic law figure as important references analytically, they are defined solely on the basis of a selective treatment of two Qur'anic passages on inheritance laws and polygamy and an isolated treatment of divorce. Charrad proposes kin- 128 The American Journal of [slamic Social Sciences 19:4 serious gap renders the author's recurrent claim that Islamic law sanctions the legal subordination of women supremely speculative, and a-contextual, such as when she states reductively that: Islamic family law portrays the marital bond as fragile or that: The facilitation of divorce, especially in the fonn ofunilateral repudiation, the legality of polygamy, and the absence of common property between husband and wife, all combine to define the marital bond as fragile.	cache/ajiss-1902.pdf	txt/ajiss-1902.txt