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Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition: Oneworld Academic

Editat de Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2015
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 are scholars from different disciplines and backgrounds, brought together by Musawah (Arabic for "equality"), a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780747163
ISBN-10: 1780747160
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oneworld Publications
Colecția Oneworld Publications
Seria Oneworld Academic

Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Recenzii

"Men in Charge? is bound to be a key scholarly text for anyone researching or studying law or Islam in general. It is a necessary book, one which is carefully designed to combat misconceptions and prejudice, and one which, most importantly, has a practical focus: all of the book’s contributors are writing for change.... These authors pave the way for a brighter and fairer future for Muslim women."
- The London School of Economics and Political Science Book Review

"Bar none, this is the best treatment of women and Islamic law that I have read in the past twenty years...profound, eye-opening and even exhilarating. It is difficult for me to take seriously any student or scholar dealing with the subject of guardianship of men over women in Islam unless, or until, they have read and digested this book."
- Dr. Kaled Abou El Fadl - Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

"Brimming with facts and insights, these critical and constructive essays by a global array of scholars and reformers focus our attention on how patriarchy functions in Muslim texts and contexts, and how it can be challenged. Their distinctive analyses converge and diverge, leading the reader to a new awareness of the range and power of Muslim feminist thought in the twenty-first century."
- Kecia Ali - Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University

"A highly stimulating collection of pieces by notable scholars and activists...Men in Charge? provides a complex and clearly articulated analysis of the problems with the dominant exegetical and juristic understandings of gender relations...an extremely valuable contribution to the discourse on gender relations, equality, justice and women's rights in Islam and among Muslims."
- Farid Esack, Professor in the Study of Islam and Head of Department of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg

Notă biografică


Cuprins

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 | Sädiyya 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

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