Gender and equality in Muslim family law : justice and ethics in the Islamic legal tradition / edited by Ziba Mir-Hosseini ... [et al.]. - London : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - viii, 279 p. ; 24 cm. - Library of Islamic law ; 5 . - Library of Islamic law ; 5. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Muslim family law and the question of equality / Justice, equality and Muslim family laws : new ideas, new prospects / Qiwāma in Egyptian family laws : "wifely obedience" between legal texts, courtroom practices and realities of marriages / Egyptian women's rights NGOs : personal status law reform between Islamic and international human rights law / The religious arguments in the debate on the reform of the Moroccan family code / From local to global : sisters in Islam and the making of Musawah : a global movement for equality in the Muslim family / Gender equality and the doctrine of Wilāya / The status of women between the Qur'an and Fiqh / Gender equality and the hadith of the prophet Mohammad : reinterpreting the concept of Maḥram and Qiwāma / Rethinking men's authority over women : Qiwāma, Wilāya, and their underlying assumptions / Revisiting women's rights in Islam : "egalitarian justice" in lieu of "deserts-based justice" / The paradox of equality and the politics of difference : gender equality, Islamic law and the modern Muslim state / Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen and Christian Moe -- Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Marwa Sharafeldin -- Aïcha El Hajjami -- Zainah Anwar -- Muhammad Kahlid Masud -- Nasr Abu-Zayd -- Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir -- Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari -- Mohsen Kadivar -- Anver M. Emon. Introduction:

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Domestic relations (Islamic law)
Equality before the law (Islamic law)
Muslim women--Legal status, laws, etc.
ISLAM
Muslimin.
Gleichheit.
Familienrecht.

KBP540.3 / .G46 2013

346.167015