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In Iran, Islamist women support the right of women to work outside the home, while in Malaysia, Sisters in Islam fights to bring gender justice to Islamic law. Although the subject of women in Islam can provoke horror, fascination, pity, and at times, vitriolic reactions, Muslim women around the globe are fighting for a place in today's world

Sedigheh Vasmahghi is a professor at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tehran, specialising in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. In the course of her studies she has come to the conclusion that some of the traditional arguments leading to the current majority view on the rights of women in Shi'ite Islam are based on faulty reasoning or on a misinterpretation of the original sources. Her arguments imply that mainstream Shi'ite Islam, and therefore the Iranian State, should review its position on the status of women in society, offering women a far better legal status than they have

1. Honour, violence, women and Islam - an introduction / Mohammad Mazher Idriss -- 2. Honour-related violence towards South Asian Muslim women in the UK : a crisis of masculinity and cultural relativism in the context of Islamophobia and the 'war on terror' / Tahir Abbas -- 3. The silencing of women from the Pakistani Muslim Mirpuri community in violent relationships / Zahira Latif -- 4. "There is nothing 'honourable' about honour killings' : gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism / Veena Meetoo and Heidi Safia Mirza -- 5. Collective crimes, collective victims : a case study of the murder of Banaz Mahmod / Joanne Payton -- 6. Honour and shame in domestic homicide : a critical analysis of the provocation defence / Anna Carline -- 7. Does the Qur'an condone domestic violence? / Sadia Kausar, Sjaad Hussain and Mohammad Mazher Idriss -- 8. The construction of 'honour' in Indian criminal law : an Indian lawyer's perspective / Geeta Ramaseshan -- 9. Men's violence and women's responsibility : mothers' stories about honour violence / Asa Elden -- 10. Lack of due diligence : judgements of crimes of honour in Turkey / Leyla Pervizat -- 11. A comparative study of the reform work conducted in Asia and Europe to combat violence and 'so-called' honour murders / Rana Husseini -- 12. Ending honour crimes in sub-Saharan Africa : looking at a long hard death / Nancy Kaymar Stafford -- 13. Conversations across borders : men and honour-related violence in the UK and Sweden / Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert -- 14. Tackling 'crimes of honour' : evaluating the social and legal responses for combating forced marriages in the UK / Samia Bano -- 15. Reconfiguring 'honour'-based violence as a form of gendered violence / Aisha Gill.

It should be stated at the beginning that the contemporary family in the Islamic World is basically patriarchal, characterized by the domination of the father — head of the family—followed by adult male members in accordance with their seniority. This very feature is strangely analogical to the early pre-Islamic tribal model of family and social hierarchy. Likewise, women perform now—as in the past dependent inferior roles. Women are, furthermore, isolated from the male society—also through the imposition of the ḥiǧāb (veil) and subjection to living (though, sometimes, and not as a rule) within polygamous family. To trace the source of this phenomenon, in an objective manner, we have to return to both the pre-Islamic tribal society and to early Islam. The political history of the time is assumed to be known and will not be the subject of interest of the present paper. ; Maciej Klimiuk

Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes—urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization—that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book—and the community of women it depicts—emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race

It has long been argued that Islam liberated Muslim women by granting them full rights as citizens. Yet in reality we see that in much of the Muslim world women have long been subjected to both cultural and political oppression. Instances such as forced marriages, arbitrary divorces, female mutilations and other abuses are sadly common in the Muslim World, as are restrictions on women's education and on their role in the labour force. This book explores these problems and highlights the contrast with what Islam - through the Qur'an and the Sunna - in fact prescribes. The cause of such contradictions are shown to lie in other socio-cultural and political dynamics, quite outside the realm of the revealed religion.

The role of women in Islamic societies, not to mention in the religion itself, is a defining issue. It is also one that remains resistant to universal dogma, with a wide range of responses to women's social roles across the Islamic world. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the editor of this volume has assembled the latest research on the issue, which combines contemporary with historical data. The material comes from around the world as well as from Muslim and non-Muslim researchers. It takes in work from majority Muslim nations such as Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey, as well as countries with troubled interfaith relations such as India and Israel. Nations with minority Muslim populations such as France, the UK, Canada and Australia, are also represented. The work also features varying Islamic sub-groups such as the two main ones, Sunni and Shi'a, as well as less well known populations such as the Ismaili Muslims. In each case, the work is underpinned by the very latest socio-theological insights and empirical data.

This work of research by Taj Hashmi puts the issue of women's position in society in historical as well as Islamic perspectives to relate it to the objective conditions in Bangladesh. In eight illuminating chapters, he narrates how Quranic edicts about women have through the ages been misinterpreted by the power elites and the mullahs to suppress women. Even NGOs are not immune from exploiting them. Hope, according to the author, lies in the literacy and economic self-reliance of the Bangladeshi women.