Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

I. Xavire, My experience with police violence as an ISA detainee, 1 May 2001, <http://dfn.org/voices/malaysia/ isatestimony.h ...

this period was the prison. The imprisonment of female relatives of male opponents was the only constant that cut through the co ...

maintains that its application to Muslims in India is mandatory. Though the institution of the qazi (qà∂ì, Islamic judge) was ab ...

lent among Muslims as well as Hindus, activists say that despite the insertion of section 304B in the Indian Penal Code in 1986 ...

——, Development in the law of rape, in The tyranny of rape, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Feb- ruary 1992, 6. ——, The oth ...

women convicts in women’s living quarters. Male prisoners, too, can be a threat to women’s well- being. Most African prisons hou ...

instigate hunger strikes and launch grievances, never coming to terms with the label of prisoner; some refuse to work and all re ...

B. Harlow, Barred. Women, writing, and political deten- tion, Hanover, N.H. 1992. V. de Klerk and G. Barkhuizen, Language usage ...

Overview This entry initially examines the factors that pre- cipitated the rise of the four legal schools in Sunnì Islam, the va ...

incorporated by Abù£anìfa (d. 150/767) as an important element in jurisprudence. The jurists of Kufa also used qiyàs (analogy) i ...

tion and status of a woman was thus transmitted in some of the ™adìth reports. Some traditions main- tain that women were create ...

of divorce the laws of purity are disregarded and the repudiation is made irrevocable by a three-fold pronouncement by the husba ...

Inheritance laws In pre-Islamic Arabia, women were not accorded rights of inheritance. This was changed by the Qur±àn, which pre ...

——,An introduction to Islamic law, Oxford 1979. B. Stowasser, Women in the Qur±an, traditions, and inter- pretation, New York 19 ...

Overview This entry discusses how women are treated in the twelver Shì≠ì(Ja≠farì) school of law and the fac- tors that shaped th ...

Shi≠ism and women Generally speaking, due to the pivotal roles played by women such as Fà†ima, the daughter of the Prophet, and ...

Divorce in Shi≠ism Shì≠ìlaws on divorce treat women more favor- ably than their Sunnìcounterparts. This is because the Shì≠ìs do ...

and sisters and their issue, and grandparents of the deceased; and uncles and aunts and their issue. The presence of the first c ...

Overview The development of Islamic family law Classical Islamic family law, like other areas of Islamic law (the Sharì≠a), is b ...

her current marriage. However, a female expert witness called by ≠Umar testified that this was a case of a “sleeping child” (ràq ...