[PDF] Womens Human Rights And The Muslim Question eBook

Author : Rebecca Barlow
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0522861598

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Women's Human Rights and the Muslim Question shows how Muslim women have made meaningful contributions to the development of the international framework on gender equality and women's rights. An investigation into the women's movement of Iran offers a practical grounding for this argument, and presents unprecedented findings on how ideological divisions along secular and religious lines have been worked in favour of a rights-based framework for change. The book presents a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the campaign material of the women's movement 'Change for Equality Campaign'—one of the most progressive and sophisticated movements in the Middle East/Central Asia.

Author : Anne Norton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691195943

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Why “the Muslim question” is really about the West and its own anxieties—not Islam In this fearless, original book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam. What is really in question, she argues, is the West’s commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization.

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File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2009
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The relationship between human rights principles defined at the international level, and questions of justice, rights, and representation in Muslim contexts, is an issue of significant complexity. Within this broad debate - a defining feature of contemporary international relations - this thesis focuses on the extent to which the discourse of universal human rights provides women in the local Iranian context with a valuable point of reference to advance the ongoing struggle for women's empowerment. To address this question, the author begins broadly by questioning the commonly held view that human rights are a legacy of Western culture. An inquiry into the development of international standards in the second half of the twentieth century suggests that although Muslim actors were not the 'main players' in this process, nor were they passive spectators. Rather, members of Muslim communities - indeed Muslim women - have been active and impacting participants in the ongoing development of the human rights framework. The thesis then provides a more specific exploration of the strategic manoeuvres of the Iranian women's movement. Through an analysis of the shifts that have taken place within the women's movement over the course of Iran's reform and post-reform years (1997-2003, and 2004-present), the author argues that the two conventional approaches to advancing women's rights in Iran - Islamic feminism and secular feminism - carry significant practical limitations when carried out in mutual exclusivity. It appears, however, that women activists of both religious and secular orientations have recognised those limitations, and reformed their approaches accordingly. In the context of the Change for Equality Campaign, launched in August 2006, feminists of both secular and religious orientations are working together in a sustained and systematic attempt to advance mutual goals of non-discrimination. This paradigmatic shift, where practicality has trumped the maintenance of p.

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674726332

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Author : Shaheen S. Ali
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004479953

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This important study offers a conceptual analysis of gender and human rights under Islamic law, state law and international law, and extends this analysis to a specific examination of the nature of women's rights in the Islamic tradition. It explores the disparity between the theoretical perspective on women's rights and its applications to Muslim jurisdictions, determined by elements of cultural practices, socio-economic realities and political expediences, and uses the example of Pakistan to demonstrate the divergence between the theory and practice of Islamic law in these jurisdictions. It discusses the concept of an emerging 'operative' Islamic law, which includes principles of Islamic law, secular codes and popular custom and usage.

Author : Kelly J. Shannon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0812249674

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U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy.

Author : H. Jawad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230503314

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It has been argued that Islam liberated Muslim women by granting them full rights as citizens. Yet in reality we see that women have long been subjected to both cultural and political oppression. Instances such as forced marriages are sadly common in the Muslim World, as are restrictions on education and on their role in the labour force.

Author : Jocelyne Cesari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019109286X

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The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western commentators, the question of Women Rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age of democracy and liberalism. Especially since the Arab Awakening, the issue is usually framed as the opposition between liberal advocates of secular democracy and religious opponents of women's full equality. Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective critically re-engages this too simple binary opposition by reframing the debate around Islam and women's rights within a broader comparative literature. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, it examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part One addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part Two localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part One. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women's rights in minority conditions to shed light on the gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder on the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Author : V. A. Mohamad Ashrof
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788178354569

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A solemn attempt to rediscover the Qurnic basis of gender equality, determining the status of women in Islam, to recapture the spirit of quranic revelation further to reconstruct Islamic theology from an egalitarian perspectives. A comprehensive and exhaustive study.