Men in charge? : rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition / edited by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger.

Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, though it varies considerably in...

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