Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition

by Kari Vogt

Book Overview

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in other religious traditions, the idea of equality between men and women was neither central to notions of justice nor part of the juristic landscape, and Muslim jurists did not begin to address it until the twentieth century. The personal status of Muslim...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848859228
• ISBN13: 9781848859227
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"