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Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition

Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition

Larsen, Lena
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
Moe, Christian

Hardcover

Series: Library of Islamic Law

General Gender StudiesGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1848859228
ISBN13: 9781848859227
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 30 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in other religious traditions, the idea of equality between men and women was neither central to notions of justice nor part of the juristic landscape, and Muslim jurists did not begin to address it until the twentieth century. The personal status of Muslim men, women and children continues to be defined by understandings of Islamic law - codified and adapted by modern nation-states - that assume authority to be the natural prerogative of men, that disadvantage women and that are prone to abuse. This volume argues that effective and sustainable reform of these laws and practices requires engagement with their religious rationales from within the tradition. Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law offers a ground-breaking analysis of family law, based on fieldwork in family courts, and illuminated by insights from distinguished clerics and scholars of Islam from Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia, as well as by the experience of human rights and women's rights activists.

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