" In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of
women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in …

The subject of this third edition of my book covering the status of women in Islam and under
modern Islamic legislation, has come into prominence as a result of the current worldwide …

Muslim jurists claim, and all Muslims believe, that justice and equality are intrinsic values
and cardinal principles in Islam and the sharia. If this is the case, in a state that claims to be …

This chapter addresses the relationship between legal texts and social practices, ending
with a note on forms of modernity and feminism that do not take the West as its model, but …

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & ISLAMIC CULTURES &ICEN Family, Law and Politics …

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 …

Recent ideological shifts in Western capitalist countries have impelled many Muslim
intellectuals to examine the discourses of feminism and human rights in the Islamic world …

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new
generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has …

Feminism as a phenomenon engaging with issues of women's rights, women's liberation,
and gender equality as part and parcel of the rights, liberation, and equality of all was …

Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to
gender and the family, women's rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the …