This chapter offers a survey of approaches and narratives that have emerged in the study of
woman, gender, sexuality and Islamic law from the 1980s into the present. Theorised in the …

Over the past 40 or more years, scholarship on women, gender and sexuality in Islamic law
has developed to produce varied approaches to law reform and different narratives of gen …

This paper explores ways in which women can pursue and achieve equality and justice in
Islamic law. It begins by examining constructions of gender rights in Islamic legal thought …

One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of women
in Islamic law. Whereas Muslim conservatives argue that gender-differentiated legal rulings …

This paper proposes that Islamic thought on gender rights and roles has embarked on a
particularly dynamic phase, one where reconsideration of laws affecting women now has far …

This chapter outlines the conceptions of gender evident in Islamic legal tradition,
summarises how classical Muslim jurists, in the dominant interpretations of the Shari'ah …

The role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state,
religious authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to …

THE broad outlining and quantification of what is often formulated as “women's rights and
duties in classical legal literature” has long been a preoccupation of scholars seeking to …

How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times. Islamic
law is often misrepresented as a single monolithic concept, rather than a collection of …

Three recent books focused on law, gender, and Islam not only make important individual
contributions to the field of law and religion, but together, in their attention to issues of …