If justice is an intrinsic value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition?
Today, the idea of gender equality, inherent to contemporary conceptions of justice, presents a challenge to established, patriarchal interpretations of Shari'a. In thought-provoking discussions with six influential Muslim intellectuals - Abdullahi An-Na'im, Amina Wadud, Asma Lamrabet, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Mohsen Kadivar and Sedigheh Vasmaghi - Ziba Mir-Hosseini explores how egalitarian gender laws might be constructed from within the Islamic legal framework.
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.
Title: Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam
Author: Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
ISBN: 9780861543274
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Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication Date: 2022-04-07
Number of Pages: 272
Weight: 0.3101 kg
'Makes leading Muslim reformists' works and arguments about gender and women's rights accessible to a wider readership... Besides being an obvious choice for a textbook in Islam and Gender courses, Mir-Hosseini's latest work will resonate with any readers seeking to reconcile notions like gender equality and women's rights with outdated, patriarchal interpretations of Islam.'
* The New Arab *
'Ziba Mir-Hosseini offers us an insightful and illuminating meditation on the struggle for justice for women in Islam in recent decades. Essential reading on the subject, her book will surely become a classic.'
-- Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University
'Among today's most innovative and influential Islamic thinkers, Ziba Mir-Hosseini has worked for decades to promote gender equality in Muslim family law. The fascinating and engaging dialogues in this volume...reflect her twin commitments to conceptual precision and real-world transformation.'
* Kecia Ali, Professor of Religion, Boston University *
'Long one of our age's most gifted scholars on Islam, gender, and equality, Ziba Mir-Hosseini has written a new book that takes readers through a conversational journey about gender equality with six leading Muslim intellectuals. Both deeply personal and scholarly, the journey's narratives offer state-of-the-field commentaries on not just gender equality but Shari'a law and Muslim ethics in our late-modern age. The result is one of the most important and enjoyable books on Islam and gender that I have ever read.'
* Robert W. Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs, Boston University *
'At once personal and scholarly, diverse yet focused on particular issues, presenting both spiritual and intellectual journeys, this work represents an original way of broaching the ever-elusive subject of gender in Islam.'
* Omaima Abou-Bakr, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University *
