Many contemporary Muslim family laws rest on patriarchal concepts. The time for change is now.\nThe model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades.\nIn this volume, a diverse group of scholars explore how egalitarian marital relations can be supported from within Islamic tradition. Brought together by the Musawah movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, they examine ethics and laws related to marriage and gender relations from the perspective of the Qur’an, Sunna, Muslim legal tradition, historical practices and contemporary law reform processes. Collectively they conceptualize how Muslim marriages can be grounded in equality, mutual well-being and the core Qur’anic principles of ‘adl (justice) and ihsan (goodness and beauty).

Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage: Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba

Al-Sharmani, Mulki

Rumminger, Jana

Marsso, Sarah

Oneworld Academic

Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, and since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature tackling this issue. Recently, exciting new feminist research has been challenging gender discrimination and male authority from within Islamic legal tradition: this book presents some important results from that research. The contributors all engage critically with two central juristic concepts; rooted in the Qur’an, they lie at the basis of this discrimination. One refers to a husband’s authority over his wife, his financial responsibility toward her, and his superior status and rights. The other is male family members’ right and duty of guardianship over female members (e.g., fathers over daughters when entering into marriage contracts) and the privileging of fathers over mothers in guardianship rights over their children. The contributors, brought together by the Musawah global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, include Omaima Abou-Bakr, Asma Lamrabet, Ayesha Chaudhry, Sa‘diyya Shaikh, Lynn Welchman, Marwa Sharefeldin, Lena Larsen and Amina Wadud. CONTENTS Foreword Zainah Anwar Acknowledgements Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger Muslim Legal Tradition and the Challenge of Gender Equality Ziba Mir-Hosseini The Interpretive Legacy of Qiwamah as an Exegetical Construct Omaima Abou-Bakr An Egalitarian Reading of the Concepts of Khilafah, Wilayah and Qiwamah Asma Lamrabet Producing Gender-Egalitarian Islamic Law: A Case Study of Guardianship (Wilayah) in Prophetic Practice Ayesha S. Chaudhry Islamic Law, Sufism and Gender: Rethinking the Terms of the Debate Sa’diyya Shaikh Qiwamah and Wilayah as Legal Postulates in Muslim Family Laws Lynn Welchman Islamic Law Meets Human Rights: Reformulating Qiwamah and Wilayah for Personal Status Law Reform Advocacy in Egypt Marwa Sharafeldin ‘Men are the Protectors and Maintainers of Women…’: Three Fatwas on Spousal Roles and Rights Lena Larsen Understanding Qiwamah and Wilayah through Life Stories Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger The Ethics of Tawhid over the Ethics of Qiwamah Amina Wadud About the Contributors Index

Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

Mulki Al-Sharmani undertakes a close textual analysis of the hermeneutics of selected Islamic feminism scholars as they engage with the Qur'an, Hadith, and different textual genres in Islamic interpretive tradition. She focuses on the relevant works of nine prominent scholars located in North America, Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa. Bringing their works into conversation with one another, Islamic Feminism critically examines the epistemological and methodological contributions and challenges of these scholars. Al-Sharmani shows how these scholars' engagements with the question of gender also yields new insights into the interplay between Islamic theology, ethics, and law. Drawing on extensive multi-sited ethnographic research, Al-Sharmani examines the societal significance and limits of the studied scholarship and how it informs and is informed by multidimensional Muslim gender activism in both global and local contexts. Towards the latter aim, Al-Sharmani focuses on two case studies: the global movement Musawah, and Egyptian Islamic feminism in the aftermath of the 2011 Revolution.

Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury Academic

This study seeks to provide a critical analysis of child protection policies in Egypt and examine whether these policies are based on the rights-based model of child protection that is embodied in the Convention for Child Rights (CRC). It identifies the ways in which these policies fail to link child rights and child protection and thus are unable to provide integrated and accessible services that meet children’s needs. Cairo Papers in Social Science 30:1

Child Protection Policies in Egypt: A Rights-Based Approach: Cairo Papers Vol. 30, No. 1 (Cairo Papers in Social Science, Spring 2007, 30-1)

Azer, Adel

Mehanna, Sohair

Ali, Essam

The American University in Cairo Press

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