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Gender and human rights in Islam and international law : equal before Allah, unequal before man?

Title: Gender and human rights in Islam and international law : equal before Allah, unequal before man? / by Shaheen Sardar Ali.
Author: Ali, Shaheen Sardar.
Publication: The Hague ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, ©2000.

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Description

xxii, 358 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This study offers a conceptual analysis of gender and human rights under Islamic law, state law and international law, and extends this analysis to a specific examination of the nature of women's rights in the Islamic tradition. It explores the disparity between the theoretical perspective on women's rights and its application to Muslim jurisdictions, determined by elements of cultural practices, socio-economic realities and political expediencies, and uses the example of Pakistan to demonstrate the divergence between the theory and practice of Islamic law in these jurisdictions. It discusses the concept of an emerging 'operative' Islamic law, which includes principles of Islamic law, secular codes of law and popular custom and usage." "The book is based on extensive and in-depth research and provides a wealth of information across a number of fields including human rights, Islamic law, gender and the law, international law and constitutional law. It will be of prime interest to academics, lawyers, researchers, activists and policy makers involved in human rights issues, gender studies and Islamic law."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

comment.
commentaire.
comentario.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 325-348.

Contents

Women's Human Rights in Islam: Initiating the Discourse -- Human Rights in Islam and International Law: A Conceptual Analysis -- The Definitional Debate and Nature of Human Rights -- Foundations of Human Rights in the 'Western' Tradition -- Sources of Human Rights in Islam -- 'Secular' and 'Western' versus 'Divine' and 'Islamic': A Clash of Traditions? -- Rights-based and Duty-based Human Rights: A Valid Distinction? -- Islam, Human Rights and Individualism -- Human Rights as Hierarchical Entitlements? Rights of White, Free, Male, Elite in the 'Western' Tradition and Entitlements of Adult, Free, Male, Muslims in the Islamic -- Women's Human Rights in Islam: Towards a Theoretical Framework -- From the Saintly to the Evil? Conflicting Images of Women in Quran and Hadith Literature and Implications for Women's Human Rights in Islam -- Ibadaat and Muamalaat: Esposito's Hierarchical Notion of Rights in the Islamic Tradition -- Women's Human Rights in Islam as Categories of Entitlement -- The Non-Discriminatory Categories of Rights, Ibadaat and Women's Human Rights -- The Protective and Corrective Category, Muamalaat and Women's Human Rights -- Discriminatory Category of Rights: The Verse 4:34 Debate -- Evidentiary Value of Women's Testimony -- Inheritance Rights of Women: A Fixed, Unchangeable Share or the Basic Minimum? -- Polygamy: An Acknowledgement of 'Different Needs' or Statement of Male Superiority? -- Hijab (Veiling of Women): A Prescription for Female Modesty or Symbolic Division of Muslim Space on the Basis of Gender?

ISBN

9041112685
9789041112682

LCCN

99042867

OCLC

ocm42022378
42022378
SCSB-8944305

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library