Men in charge? : rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition /
Men in charge? : rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition /
Rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition
edited by ZIba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger.
- xiii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
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 its impact, according to both class and region. Since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature
Introduction / Muslim legal tradition and the challenge of gender equality / The interpretive legacy of Qiwamah as an exegetical construct / An egalitarian reading of the concepts of Khalifah, Wilayah and Qiwamah / Producing gender-egalitarian Islamic law: a case study of guardianship (Wilayah) in prophetic practice / Qiwamah and Wilayah as legal postulates in Muslim family laws / Islamic law meets human rights: reformulating Qiwamah and Wilayah for personal status law reform advocacy in Egypt / 'Men are the protectors and maintainers of women...': three fatwas on spousal roles and rights / Understanding Qiwamah and Wilayah through life stories / The ethics of Tawhid over the ethics of Qiwamah / Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger -- Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Omaima Abou-Bakr -- Asma Lamrabet -- Ayesha S. Chaudhry -- t Islamic law, sufism and gender: rethinking the terms of the debate / Sa'diyya Shaikh -- Lynn Welchman -- Marwa Sharafeldin -- Lena Larsen -- Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger -- Amina Wadud.
9781780747163 RM 80.00
Islamic law
Muslim women
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 its impact, according to both class and region. Since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature
Introduction / Muslim legal tradition and the challenge of gender equality / The interpretive legacy of Qiwamah as an exegetical construct / An egalitarian reading of the concepts of Khalifah, Wilayah and Qiwamah / Producing gender-egalitarian Islamic law: a case study of guardianship (Wilayah) in prophetic practice / Qiwamah and Wilayah as legal postulates in Muslim family laws / Islamic law meets human rights: reformulating Qiwamah and Wilayah for personal status law reform advocacy in Egypt / 'Men are the protectors and maintainers of women...': three fatwas on spousal roles and rights / Understanding Qiwamah and Wilayah through life stories / The ethics of Tawhid over the ethics of Qiwamah / Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger -- Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Omaima Abou-Bakr -- Asma Lamrabet -- Ayesha S. Chaudhry -- t Islamic law, sufism and gender: rethinking the terms of the debate / Sa'diyya Shaikh -- Lynn Welchman -- Marwa Sharafeldin -- Lena Larsen -- Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger -- Amina Wadud.
9781780747163 RM 80.00
Islamic law
Muslim women