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Books on: women islamic law

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Women in Muslim Family Law

Book by John L. Esposito; Syracuse University Press, 1982

Subjects:

Muslim Women, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc. (Islamic Law)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in classical family law according to the Hanafi...official school of Islamic law in the Middle East and South Asia. WOMEN IN PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA Womens status in pre-Islamic Arabia was reflected...sale through which a woman became the property...
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Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia

Book by Frank E. Vogel; Brill, 2000

Subjects:

Islam And State--Saudi Arabia, Islamic Law--History, Islamic Law--Saudi Arabia, Law--Saudi Arabia--Islamic Influences

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Modernists to the Secularization of Islamic Law. In MES 14 (1978): 263 77...279 92. Layish, Aharon. Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State...Bernard. Siyasa. In In Quest of an Islamic Humanism: Arabic and Islamic...
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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

Book by Haim Gerber; Brill, 1999

Subjects:

Islamic Law--Interpretation And Construction--History, Jurisprudence--Middle East--History, Law Teachers--Islamic Countries--Biography, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

women inherit in accordance with Islamic law, but if the land is purely sown...the context of purely traditional Islamic legal discourse. In introducing...unfamiliar, not to be found in Islamic legal books, seemingly based on...
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Law in the Middle East - Vol. 1
Includes: Origin and Development of Islamic Law

Book by Majid Khadduri, Herbert J. Lienbesny; Middle East Institute, 1955

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Islamic Law, Law--Middle East

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law, Western concept contrasted to Islamic, 85 lawful acts, defined, 191 laws, collections of...different schools of law, 341 - 42 ; on wrongful...on interdiction of women, 197 - 98 ; on liability...189 - 90 ; on non-Islamic customs, 36 ; on...Maliki school of law: 92 ; on conditions...
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Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law

Book by Wael B. Hallaq; Cambridge University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Authority--Religious Aspects--Islam, Islamic Law

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...the fatwa in the formation of substantive law is nowhere more evident than in the dialectical...what fatwas commonly determined to be the law was the madhhab opinion. 129 In his Nihayat...duration of idda in the case of menstruating women, he fixed it at three months, dismissing...

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Journal Articles on: women islamic law

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Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law

Journal article by Kecia Ali; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law: Theories in Islamic Law, vol. 3 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...into how Islamic law takes womens and...construction of Man and Woman as legal subjects...specialists in Islamic law, it will...treatment of men and women or whether substantive...situation in which laws have been more harshly applied and women disproportionately...state to make Islamic rules and then...in traditional Islamic legal thinking...the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic...
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What If Sharia Weren't the Enemy? Rethinking International Women's Rights Advocacy on Islamic Law

Journal article by Asifa Quraishi; Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 22, 2011

Subjects:

Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic feminism--Evaluation, Magazu, Bariya Ibrahim--Cases, Muslim women--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Women, Muslim--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...extra-marital sex) laws in Nigeria and Pakistan...to mention Islamic law at all. This would...world of advocacy for women that is nuanced and...brief arguing, on Islamic law grounds, that a young Nigerian woman, Bariya Ibrahim...depicting the zina laws of Nigeria--and Islamic law generally...
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Debates on Women's Status as Judges and Witnesses in Post-Formative Islamic Law

Journal article by Karen Bauer; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, 2010

Subjects:

Gender equality, Islamic law, Muslim women--Case studies, Witnesses--Case studies, Women judges--Case studies, Women's rights, Women, Muslim--Case studies

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Islamic Law and Society...Judith Tucker, Women, Family...Courts," in Law, Custom...Sachedina, "Woman Half-The...Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence...subject of women as judges in Islamic law, but...indistinguishable" (Women, Family...interpretations of the law, which includes...Formative Islamic Jurisprudence...in Hanafi Laws on Women and...
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Inter-religious Marriage from Socio-historical Islamic Perspectives

Journal article by Noryamin Aini; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008

Subjects:

Indonesia, Interfaith relationships, Islamic law, Religion, Social impact, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...implement its laws of marriage...legal rights of women in marriage...organizations hoped a new law would counteract...largely uncodified Islamic marriage laws, under which a woman "could be married...specifically target women, however, and...Nevertheless, the law does create a...disparity. A woman who repudiates...INDONESIA Although Islamic marriage laws forbid IRMs...
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Evidence in Ottoman Courts: Oral and Written Documentation in Early-Modern Courts of Islamic Law

Journal article by Bogac A. Ergene; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004

Subjects:

Courts, Islamic--Analysis, Islamic courts--Analysis, Islamic law--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Style. New York: Women Make Movies. Marcus...and Expression in Islamic Legal Acts," Islamic Law and Society 8: 151...Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the...of Aintab." In Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage...

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Magazine Articles on: women islamic law

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Veiled Politics: Zephie Begolo Discusses the Symbolic Power of the Veil in Iranian Politics, and Its Consequences for Women, before and during the Islamic Revolution

Magazine article by Zephie Begolo; History Today, Vol. 58, September 2008

Subjects:

Hijab (Custom)--History, Iranian history--Political aspects, Islamic culture--Influence, Islamic law, Muslim women--Civil rights, Muslim women--Clothing, Women, Muslim--Civil rights, Women, Muslim--Clothing

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...before and during the Islamic Revolution. by...because of Irans women, clad in their...potent symbols of the Islamic movement, serving...once married, a woman should remain indoors...factors holding women back to be their...Turkey, he used laws affecting dress...emancipating women, the law on veiling was oppressive. The Islamic cultural code that...
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Can Sharia Be Good for Women? across Afghanistan, Girls and Women Are Now Receiving an Education: But It Is a Purely Islamic One

Magazine article by F. Brinley Bruton; New Statesman, Vol. 135, November 27, 2006

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Social policy, Islamic law--Study and teaching, Islamic religious education, Women--Civil rights, Women--Education, Women--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...includes subjects such as Islamic law, Islamic philosophy, and Arabic...news in a country where women still cannot pray in...strict interpretation of Islamic law should be directly applicable...very important to our laws, but it was written...Maria Bashir, the first woman to hold such a post...
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Islamic Law Comes to the Phoenix Airport

Magazine article by Robert Spencer; Human Events, Vol. 64, September 8, 2008

Subjects:

Islam, Islamic law, Legislation, Muslims, Public officials

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Islamic Law Comes to the Phoenix Airport...pants. But 30 Somali Muslim women who work for GSA Services...the Council on American-Islamic Relations, they won permission...eyes of the beholder in the Islamic world as much as it can be...
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No to Islamic Law in Iraq

Magazine article by Robert Spencer; Human Events, Vol. 62, November 13, 2006

Subjects:

Christians, Human rights, Iraq War-2003, Islam, Islamic law, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

No to Islamic Law in Iraq by Robert Spencer...idea that it creates an Islamic theocracy is simply false...the immense detriment of women and religious minorities...the hijab. in accord with Islamic norms. Ironically, while...
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Behind the Koranic Curtain: A Look at Life under the Rigid Theocracy Ruling Iran's Islamic Republic, Where Nonconformity to Shari'a Law Is Punishable by Imprisonment, Beating, Amputation, and Even Death

Magazine article by Michael E. Telzrow; The New American, Vol. 22, October 16, 2006

Subjects:

Crimes against humanity--Religious aspects, Iran--Political aspects, Iran--Religious aspects, Iran--Social aspects, Islamic law--Interpretation and construction, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Theocracy Ruling Irans Islamic Republic, Where Nonconformity to Sharia Law Is Punishable by Imprisonment...the bodies of six young women between the ages of 20...by killers who, under Islamic law, act with virtual...According to Irans "Islamic Punishment Act," the...

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Newspaper Articles on: women islamic law

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Women Challenge India's Islamic Law; Education Spurs Opposition to Strict Codes

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 3, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...freedom end and the rule of law begin? Having given...follow their own religious laws in the Shariat Application...among Indias Muslims, women are becoming educated...India ordered that the Islamic court system, known...by a village-based Islamic court in a rape case...The court ruled that a woman raped by her father-in-law had effectively divorced...
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Sharia Law Police Arrest 13 Women

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 14, 2009

Subjects:

Islamic fundamentalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Laws, regulations and rules, Women--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sharia Law Police Arrest 13 Women. POLICE in Sudan arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe and flogged...violation of the countrys strict Islamic law, one of those arrested said yesterday. The 13 women were at a cafe in the capital...
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Could Women Play a Bigger Role in Islamic Finance?

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 2, 2010

Subjects:

Islamic banking, Women executives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...women scholars of Islamic law, or sharia, who provide...is just a drop in the Islamic finance lake. In the...the other main hub for Islamic finance, women are sorely underrepresented.Islamic finance is growing rapidly...crisis, yet there is no woman chief executive at any...
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Shariah Is Incompatible with Liberty; Many Americans Still Don't See the Threat of Islamic Law

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 11, 2010

Subjects:

Americans--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Threat of Islamic Law. Byline: Frank J...S. Constitution with Islamic Shariah law. Yet the...incubators for homegrown Islamic radicals. The mayor...a spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro...Islamic law. It brutalizes women and otherwise treats...
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'Violence Is Inherent in Islam - It Is a Cult of Death'; . Islamic Faith Schools Must Close . Sharia Law Could Happen Here . Multiculturalism Has Failed . Islam Is the New Fascism

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 7, 2007

Subjects:

Islam--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Multiculturalism--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Cult of Death; . Islamic Faith Schools Must Close . Sharia Law Could Happen Here...Blair. "Close the Islamic faith schools today...within decades unless Islamic schools are shut down...advocating violence against women or homosexuals, or...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women islamic law

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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...West Frontier government of a law calling for Islamic moral policing was challenged...agreed to the establishment of Islamic law in Swat in exchange for a permanent...Pakistani legal system as un-Islamic. Islamic militants also mounted...
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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...istan , afgan istan , officially Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, republic...rest (half of whom must be women) appointed by the president to five-year terms. No law passed by the Assembly may be...president. The Afghanistan War and Islamic Fundamentalism In the late 1970s...
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Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...inheritance and witness laws, Islamic rights and obligations apply equally to men and women. The actual situation...For more information on Islamic law, see sharia ; for discussions...the major branches of Islamic theology, see Shiite...
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Ebadi, Shirin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...jurists, she obtained her law degree (1969) and doctorate...the coming (1979) of the Islamic revolution, women were deemed unfit to be judges...became a powerful advocate for women and children and a courageous...she became the first Muslim woman and first Iranian to win the...
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Iran

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...subsequent elections. Women received the right to...strongly denounced by the Islamic clergy, headed by the...military power. The Islamic Revolution The rapid...of the shah. Martial law was declared in September...and banks and revived Islamic traditions. Western...repeal restrictive press laws were forbidden by Khamenei...

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