Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics
feminist critique of the male gaze and the “beauty myth” (Wolf 1992). £ijàbis seen as liberation from mainstream American cultur ...
K. Govier, Shrouded in black, Toronto Star, 25 September 1995, A19. A. J. Rhodes, Riding tall. A Muslim cowgirl, in Azizah Magaz ...
Women’s rights or group rights? When identity claims are articulated by Muslim groups, feminist critiques arise immediately. Pol ...
change the complexity of the social reality, it merely reduces its representation in order to attain goals. Arguing the contrary ...
Overview Female infanticide has been practiced from ear- liest times to the present in a wide variety of cultures. The practice ...
women after Islam was revealed, which is proven by the many verses guaranteeing women’s rights. Islam’s most fundamental guarant ...
in unmarried women. Often a family may abandon the infant to avoid damaging family honor. Such infants may end up in orphanages ...
Arab States The last decades have seen major shifts in aca- demic studies about women and inheritance. If ear- lier work often c ...
property. As early as 1963, however, the law was amended to basically apply the order of succession in Shì≠ìinheritance law to t ...
ter would have to remain single (also Peters 1978, 337). The inheritance question of elderly single women is structurally differ ...
D. Powers, The Islamic inheritance system. A socio- economic approach, in C. Mallat and J. Connors (eds.), Islamic family law, L ...
well-educated, knowledgeable women, inheritance claims are increasing and will increase further, but Sharì≠a law will not allow ...
that the practice would be welcomed by the com- munity. In 1934, the Lahore Full Bench argued that a valid custom had to date ba ...
——, Social construction of Shariah. Validating differ- ence, paper given at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, P ...
Overview Introduction International law is a significant symbolic tool, but may be a very weak device in reality to assist in im ...
Abduction. With respect to the Muslim world, there are numerous examples where Western court child custody decrees grant custody ...
Scholars have vigorously criticized these sorts of reservations as incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty (Mayer ...
Universalism versus cultural relativism A major issue intertwined with the foregoing dis- cussion that arises with respect to im ...
J. Entelis, International human rights. Islam’s friend or foe? Algeria as an example of compatibility of interna- tional human r ...
Overview The end of the Second World War and the emer- gence of the United Nations system and the official international intergo ...
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