Muslim women's rights : contesting liberal-secular sensibilities in Canada / Tabassum Fahim Ruby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruby, Tabassum Fahim, author.

Series:

Global gender (Series)

Global Gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Canada.

Muslim women.

Women's rights--Canada.

Women's rights.

Women (Islamic law)--Canada.

Women (Islamic law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics. Her representation is often articulated within a rights discourse owing much to liberal-secular sensibilities--notions of freedom, equality, rational thinking, individualism, and modernization. Muslim Women's Rights explores how these liberal-secular sensibilities inform, shape, and foreclose public discussion on questions of Islam and gender. The book draws on postcolonial, antiracist, and transnational feminist studies in order to analyze public and legal debates surrounding proposed shari'ah tribunals in Canada. It examines the cultural and epistemological suppositions underlying common assumptions about Islamic laws; explores how these assumptions are informed by the Western progress narrative and women's rights debates; and asks what forms of politics these enable and foreclose. The book assesses the influence of secularism on the ontology, epistemology, and ethics afforded to Islam in the West, and begins to trace possibilities by which Islamic family law might be productively addressed on its own terms. Muslim Women's Rights is a significant contribution to the fields of both Islam and gender and the critical study of secularism.

Contents:

Liberal-secular sensibilities and a genealogy of the Ontario Shari'ah tribunals

From orientalism to neo-orientalism : discourses of race and imperial hegemony in the name of gender equality

Liberalism, the court system, and multiculturalism: examining epistemic claims

Secularism and its discontents : social hierarchies that matter

Aversion or conversion : a missed opportunity?

Ideology, ontology, and epistemology : Shari'ah debates and the Tawhidi (Unitary) weltanschauung

Signs are enough for those who think

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-72666-8

1-315-18293-9

1-351-72667-6

9781315182933

OCLC:

1089930760