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Contesting justice : women, Islam, law, and society /
"Contesting Justice examines the development of the laws and practices governing the status of women in Muslim society, particularly in terms of marriage, polygamy, inheritance, and property rights, Ahmed E. Souaiaia argues that such laws were not methodically derived from legal sources but rat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Legal absolutism and ethical relativism
- To know or not to know : the basis of acts
- Cognition through models and paradigms
- The domain of ethics and the law
- Chronology of Islamic thought
- Ethics, morality, and the law
- Determining God's position
- Core and marginal sanctions
- Emotion and law in the Qurʼānic discourse
- Threats, incentives, and piety
- Crime and punishment
- Basis for the practice of polygamy
- On the methodological and historical assumptions
- Methodological and disciplinary precedence
- Polygamy in the historical context
- The philology of polygamy
- Women in Islamic law of inheritance
- The Qurʼānic and interpretive dichotomy
- The legal and exegetical treatment of the verses on inheritance
- Women, justice, and interpretation : the principle of `Awl
- Explicitness, consensus, and interpretation
- Shares and heirs per blind survey
- Description of data collection
- Explanation and interpretation of data
- Women in modern times
- Discussion: Linking polygamy and inheritance : disadvantaging women by the numbers
- Discussing the status of women
- Other contested perspectives
- Bespoke justice versus tyranny of majoritism
- Inclusion and exclusion of women.