TY - BOOK ID - 78340962 TI - Orphans of Islam PY - 2002 SN - 1299795145 1461640431 9781461640431 9781299795143 0742500268 9780742500266 0742500276 9780742500273 PB - Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Adoption KW - Illegitimacy KW - Illegitimate children KW - Abandoned children KW - Children, Abandoned KW - Exposed children KW - Homeless children KW - Bastard children KW - Children of unmarried mothers KW - Children KW - Unmarried mothers KW - Bastardy KW - Legitimacy (Law) KW - Parent and child (Law) KW - Sex and law KW - Paternity KW - Child placing KW - Foster home care KW - Parent and child KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam. KW - Law and legislation KW - Islam KW - Adoption - Morocco KW - Illegitimacy - Morocco KW - Illegitimate children - Morocco KW - Abandoned children - Morocco KW - Adoption - Religious aspects - Islam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340962 AB - Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded body' of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of 'adoption,' which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and cultural mechanisms of one predominantly Islamic country, Jamila Bargach shows how 'the surplus bastard body' is created by mainstream society. ER -