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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Library of Islamic law ; 5.
Other Authors: Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
Language:English
Published: London : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Library of Islamic law ; 5.
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Variant Title:
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition
Format: Electronic eBook
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.