Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law : Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition.
Title:
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law : Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition.
Author:
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.
ISBN:
9780857721693
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series:
Library of Islamic Law
Contents:
Cover -- Author biography -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on transliteration and other conventions -- Introduction: Muslim Family Law and the Question of Equality -- 1. Justice, Equality and Muslim Family Laws: New Ideas, New Prospects -- Part I: Perspectives on Reality -- 2. Qiwāma in Egyptian Family Laws: 'Wifely Obedience' between Legal Texts, Courtroom Practices and Realities of Marriages -- 3. Egyptian Women's Rights NGOs: Personal Status Law Reform between Islamic and International Human Rights Law -- 4. The Religious Arguments in the Debate on the Reform of the Moroccan Family Code -- 5. From Local to Global: Sisters in Islam and the Making of Musawah: A Global Movement for Equality in the Muslim Family -- Part II: Approaches to Reform -- 6. Gender Equality and the Doctrine of Wilāya -- 7. The Status of Women between the Qur'an and Fiqh -- 8. Gender Equality and the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad: Reinterpreting the Concepts of Mahram and Qiwāma -- 9. Rethinking Men's Authority over Women: Qiwāma, Wilāya and their Underlying Assumptions -- 10. Revisiting Women's Rights in Islam: 'Egalitarian Justice' in Lieu of 'Deserts-based Justice' -- Part III: Instead of a Conclusion -- 11. The Paradox of Equality and the Politics of Difference: Gender Equality, Islamic Law and the Modern Muslim State -- About the Contributors -- Notes.
Abstract:
Islamic family law has an immediate and direct impact on the lives of Muslim men, women and children, whose personal status continues to be defined by understandings of Islamic law codified and adapted by modern nation-states. This book examines how male authority is sustained through law and court practice, the consequences for women and the family, and the demands made by Muslim women's groups. Examining the construction of male guardianship (qiwama, wilaya) in the Islamic tradition, it also seeks to create an argument for women's full equality before the law. Bringing together renowned Muslim scholars and experts, anthropologists who have carried out fieldwork in family courts, and human rights and women's rights activists from different parts of the Muslim world, from Morocco to Egypt and Iran, this book develops a framework for rethinking Islamic Law and its traditions in ways that reflect contemporary realities and understandings of justice and gender rights.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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