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Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

By Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger

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Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, and since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature tackling this issue. Recently, exciting new feminist research has been challenging gender discrimination and male authority from within Islamic legal tradition:...Show more

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9781780747163

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Oneworld Publications

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2015

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1

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Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

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