The Rights of Women in Islam

This book is a long-overdue reassessment of women's rights in Islam which have long been widely misunderstood and misinterpreted. The fundamentalists, unmindful of the social context in which Quranic verses on the subject were written, have tried to portray men as superior human beings to women. The author, a renowned scholar, has sought to set the record straight by reinterpreting the women's rights in the true Quranic spirit. He argues, quite convincingly, that the Holy Book gives equal rights to both the sexes and that it does not discriminate between them in respect of personal, democratic and human rights. An activist in women's struggle for equality, he has provided Muslim feminists with a powerful weapon in their fight for equality with men. He examines in depth the question whether in secular society Muslim Personal Law needs any change, and, if so, in which direction reforms should be undertaken. The related issue of introduction of a common civil code, doing away with religiously discriminating laws, is considered.

Politics & Social Sciences

Engineer, Asghar Ali

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

By reinterpreting Quranic texts and analyzing traditional Arab customs, this book offers a new perspective on women's lives in the modern Muslim world to reveal that equal personal and democractic rights of men and women reflect the true spirit of the Qur'an. The status of women in the pre-Islamic period in which the Arab adaat guided customs are contrasted with the role of women in the Islamic period to identify how policies of marriage, divorce, inheritance, custody of children, property rights, and polygamy were affected by the introduction of Islam. The importance of religious traditions and contemporary social realities are balanced in this progressive call to reevaluate Muslim personal law and the common civil code.

New Dawn Press

Divine injunctions from the Quran and traditional practices in Islam are reinterpreted in light of the fundamental Islamic values of justice and equality in this study on women's status in Islam. Sociopolitical values and medieval social ethos, not scriptures, are presented as the origins of repressive practices, and these values are dispelled to provide a vision of Islamic gender relations that allows women full equality in public and private life, employment, and education. Controversial issues including domestic violence, polygamy, the veil, and family planning are discussed from a faith perspective that encompasses both religious and contemporary social ethics.

The Qu'ran, Women and Modern Society

Elaborate and thorough, this overview studies countless aspects regarding women's relationship to Islam from their status in the pre-Islamic period and various traditions surrounding marriage to forms of divorce during that period, dower, and customs regarding slave-girls. It goes on to deal with the post-Islamic era, the Qur'anic concept of women's rights in inheritance, the custody of children, polygamy, and rights to property. With extensive quotes from the Qur'an and Sunnah, this study attempts to arm Muslim women with Islamic arguments for their empowerment, exploring clear Qur'anic injunctions on gender equality and the man-made shari'ah formulations that reduced women to a status of inferiority.

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Nayak, Pradeep

Politics & Government

South Asia Books

Anna Hazare Upsurge

Puniyani, Ram

Sahitya Upkram

Hajāre, Aṇṇā

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