Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.

Description

viii, 279 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Library of Islamic law ; 5

Uniform Title

Library of Islamic law ; 5.

Subject

• Domestic relations (Islamic law)
• Equality before the law (Islamic law)
• Muslim women > Legal status, laws, etc
• Islam
• Muslimin
• Gleichheit
• Familienrecht

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-1135

ISBN

• 9781848859227
• 1848859228

LCCN

2013431291

OCLC

819521230

Title

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

Publisher

London : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of Islamic law ; 5

Library of Islamic law ; 5.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-1135