Preface 1. 'Doing Gender' in Uncharted Territory 2. Omani Contexts: Shaping of the Al Sa'id Policy 3. Islamic Law: Conceptual Framework of the Study 4. The Scholarly Dabate on Kafa'a and Socio-Economic Change 5. Change and Conflict: Kafa'a in Marriage in Contemporary Omani Society 6. One or Three? Talaq and Triple Talaq at One Time: Pre-Modern Islamic Argument and Modern Practice 7. Dilemma of Talaq in Oman 8. Arrested Development: The Omani State and the Question of Cultural Identity 9. Gender, Tribe and Religion in Post-1970 Oman 10. Time of Uncertainty.