Muslim Women In Law And Society

Author : Ronak Husni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134112742
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women in Law and Society written by Ronak Husni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of an early "feminist" tract coming from a Muslim in Arab society. Awarded the 2008 "World Award of the President of the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies"

Author : Mengia Hong Tschalaer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107155770
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice written by Mengia Hong Tschalaer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--

Author : Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655762
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Jordan written by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints that exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband’s permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors that extend the patriarchal power throughout a woman’s life, and ultimately deny her full legal competency. Significantly, Sonbol notes that society’s accepting as “Islamic” the legal constraints that control women’s work constitutes a major barrier to any effort to change them, even though historically the Islamic sharia actually encourages women’s work, and despite the fact that Muslim women have contributed materially to their society’s economy. The author covers new ground as she effectively illustrates how Jordanian laws governing gender, family, and work combine with laws and legal philosophies derived from tribal, traditional, Islamic, and modern laws to form a strict patriarchal structure.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women in Law and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478572
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Justice written by Ahmed E. Souaiaia and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Justice examines the development of the laws and practices governing the status of women in Muslim society, particularly in terms of marriage, polygamy, inheritance, and property rights. Ahmed E. Souaiaia argues that such laws were not methodically derived from legal sources but rather are the preserved understanding and practices of the early ruling elite. Based on his quantitative, linguistic, and normative analyses of Quranic texts—and contrary to the established practice—the author shows that these texts sanction only monogamous marriages, guarantee only female heirs' shares, and do not prescribe an inheritance principle that awards males twice the shares of females. He critically explores the way religion is developed and then is transformed into a social control mechanism that transcends legal reform, gender-sensitive education, or radical modernization. To ameliorate the legal, political, and economic status of women in the Islamic world, Souaiaia recommends the strengthening of civil society institutions that will challenge wealth-engendered majoritism, curtail society-manufactured conformity, and bridle the absolute power of the state.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629085
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Muslim Family Law written by John L. Esposito and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of John L. Esposito's landmark book expands and updates coverage of family law reforms (in marriage, divorce, and inheritance) throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, and analyzes the diverse interpretation of Muslim family law, identifying shifts, key problems, and challenges in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ahron Layish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351471422
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State written by Ahron Layish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is methodologically unique in scholarly literature on Muslim society. Its originality lies in the fact that the rich material offered by the shari'a courts is given a thorough analysis with a view to drawing conclusions about the present-day phenomena in Arab society and processes that the society has been undergoing in modern times.Aharon Layish examines every aspect of the social status of Muslim women that finds expression in the shari'a courts: the age of marriage, stipulations inserted in the marriage contract, dower, polygamy, maintenance and obedience, divorce, custody of the children, guardianship, and succession. Each chapter opens with a short legal introduction based on all the sources of law applying in shari'a courts, followed by social analyses and a study of the attitudes and approaches of the qadis, or Muslim religious judges. Layish examines the relationship between shari'a and Israeli legislation: Do shari'a courts have regard to the provisions of Israeli law? What is the relationship between shari'a and social custom, and which is decisive in regard to Israeli Muslim women? To what extent does Israeli law actually affect Israeli Muslim women? What is the attitude of the qadis, toward Israeli legislation?Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State is an important and original study that will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic law, comparative law, sociology, and modernization.

Author : Anis Ahmad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789694481777
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Law and Society in Islam written by Anis Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lena Larsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004367853
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Muftis Think written by Lena Larsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Muftis Think offers a wealth of new materials from the nearly unexplored field of contemporary women-related fatwas in Europe. Lena Larsen’s interviews and readings provide fascinating insights into fatwa-giving as a contribution to developing a local European Islamic jurisprudence.

Author : Elizabeth Brownson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565474X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period written by Elizabeth Brownson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women’s agency in shari‘a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Her extensive archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women’s position in the courts, demonstrating that Muslim women were and are active participants in their legal affairs. Using court registers and interviews, Brownson uncovers a variety of ways women have manipulated the system to their benefit despite its patriarchal bias. She also finds that few reforms were implemented during the Mandate period. The British were uninterested in improving colonized women’s legal status and sought to avoid further antagonizing Palestinians. At the same time, Palestinians wished to uphold the one indigenous institution they still controlled while both British rule and Zionism threatened their nationalist aspirations. Although Palestinian women have had few alternatives to using this male privileged system to redress grievances with their husbands and in-laws, they continue to resist its injustices every day. Brownson finds that women’s understanding of family law fundamentals has enabled some to deftly navigate the system; however, a unified, reformed law reflecting society's current needs is required so women can have full access to their rights.