Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger

Men in Charge? (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780747170
• Artikelnr.: 41860206

Autorenporträt

Ziba Mir-Hosseini is Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, SOAS, University of London. A legal anthropologist, specialising in Islamic law, gender and development, she is a founding member of Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. Her previous publications include Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Islam and Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition.

Inhaltsangabe

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