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 …

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 …

Contemporary Muslim thought is suspended between two narratives: the narrative of origins,
a glorious past that is nostalgically recalled as evidence of the historical truth of this faith …

This chapter highlights the gap between what may be described as the Islamic ideal of
women's human rights as opposed to the contextual realities of the status of women in …

One of the greatest challenges facing the Islamic feminist movement is not only the struggle
to challenge patriarchy, but to show that equal standing is afforded women in the Quran …

Although Koran and the Islamic law (Sharia) refer specifically to the situation and statute of
women, these issues have always been present and they are still debated and debatable …

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 …

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 …

This is a study of women's rights in Islamic societies, a relatively insignificant subject to the
people who live in those societies. The Muslim population of the world is in excess of one …

I am honoured to have been asked to deliver the 2003 Professor Noel Coulson Memorial
lecture)~ I was not Professor Coulson's student, but like so many students of Islamic law, I …