This book discusses the rights of women in Islam regarding marriage, divorce, property, inheritance, custody of children and the male-female relationship by reference to the religious laws laid down in the Koran. The author argues that the early Muslim theologians ignored the context within which these rights and obligations were incorporated into Islamic law, in the process distorting the Islamic perception of women as a whole. He goes on to attack notions of female subversiveness and the spurious religious justification ...
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This book discusses the rights of women in Islam regarding marriage, divorce, property, inheritance, custody of children and the male-female relationship by reference to the religious laws laid down in the Koran. The author argues that the early Muslim theologians ignored the context within which these rights and obligations were incorporated into Islamic law, in the process distorting the Islamic perception of women as a whole. He goes on to attack notions of female subversiveness and the spurious religious justification that underpins them. Both Muslim feminists and their allies in the women's movement should find this study useful in their struggle for equal rights.
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