Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition
Author(s): Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Author, Editor), Lena Larsen (Author, Editor), Kari Vogt (Author, Editor), Christian Moe (Author, Editor)
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Publication Date: 30 May 2013
Language: English
Print length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 9781848859227
ISBN-13: 1848859228
Book Description
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. 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. Using contemporary examples from various contexts, from Morocco to Malaysia, this volume presents an informative and vital analysis of these societies and gender relations within them. The book offers a new framework for rethinking old formulations so as to reflect contemporary realities and understandings of justice, ethics and gender rights.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The book accomplishes its goal by exploring the political and hermeneutical challenges that hinder gender equality from being fully realized by scrutinizing Islamic texts and jurists’ opinions.” – Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam
About the Author
Ziba Mir- Hosseini is a legal anthropologist, specializing in Islamic law, gender and development, and a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She has published widely on family law and gender in Morocco and Iran.
Kari Vogt is Associate Professor (Emerita) at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Lena Larsen has been the co-ordinator of the Oslo Coalition at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, Oslo. She obtained her PhD in 2011.
Christian Moe is an independent writer and researcher. He has written on Islam, human rights and religion in the Balkans.
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