Gender and equality in Muslim family law : justice and ethics in the Islamic legal tradition / edited by Ziba Mir-Hosseini ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.

Series:

Library of Islamic law ; 5.

Library of Islamic law ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations (Islamic law).

Equality before the law (Islamic law).

Muslim women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Muslim women.

Physical Description:

viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: Muslim family law and the question of equality / Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen and Christian Moe

Justice, equality and Muslim family laws : new ideas, new prospects / Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Qiwāma in Egyptian family laws : "wifely obedience" between legal texts, courtroom practices and realities of marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani

Egyptian women's rights NGOs : personal status law reform between Islamic and international human rights law / Marwa Sharafeldin

The religious arguments in the debate on the reform of the Moroccan family code / Aïcha El Hajjami

From local to global : sisters in Islam and the making of Musawah : a global movement for equality in the Muslim family / Zainah Anwar

Gender equality and the doctrine of Wilāya / Muhammad Kahlid Masud

The status of women between the Qur'an and Fiqh / Nasr Abu-Zayd

Gender equality and the hadith of the prophet Mohammad : reinterpreting the concept of Maḥram and Qiwāma / Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir

Rethinking men's authority over women : Qiwāma, Wilāya, and their underlying assumptions / Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari

Revisiting women's rights in Islam : "egalitarian justice" in lieu of "deserts-based justice" / Mohsen Kadivar

The paradox of equality and the politics of difference : gender equality, Islamic law and the modern Muslim state / Anver M. Emon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848859227

1848859228

OCLC:

819521230