Author: Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher: New Dawn
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN/UPC (if available): 1932705422
Description
The controversial subject of women’s rights has assumed great importance in the Islamic world and is a burning issue today. The author of the book, Qur’an, Women and Modern society, feels that the orthodox Shari’ah Laws have been extremely slow to respond to the needs of Muslim women who wish to keep pace with the modern world. These emancipated women are far more assertive about their rights than their mothers and grandmothers were, and often excel in fields once considered the sole prerogative of men. Hence, there is a crying need to usher in radical changes without disrupting the equilibrium of Qur’anic norms and values.
Dr Asghar Ali Engineer, a noted Islamic scholar with an in-depth knowledge of Shari’ah Laws, deals in great detail with those pertaining to women. He maintains that Shari’ah Laws are a product of socio-cultural influences on the thinking of jurists, who interpreted various Qur’anic verses in accordance with their own time and milieu which have no relevance in our modern times. The author of another book on the same subject, the Rights of Women in Islam, he advocates the imperative necessity and urgency for ijtihad (creative reinterpretation) and reform of Shari’ah Laws, to breach the vast chasm that exists between them and the needs of modern Muslim women.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Tashri’ (Process of Law Making) in Islam
Women under the Authority of Islam
The Qur’an, Male Ego and Wife-beating
Muslim Women, the Veil and the Qur’an
Is Woman a Half Witness according to the Quran?
Islam and Polygamy
Divorce in the Qur’an and the Shari’ah
Islam and Family Planning
Muslim Personal Law Reform in Jordan
Islam and Liberal Reforms in Egypt
Rabi’s Basri: A Mystic Woman Par Excellence
Maulana Umar Ahmad Usmani and Women’s Rights
Maulvi Mumtaz Ali Khan-an Advocate of Women’s Rights in Islam
Sir Syed and the Concept of Women’s Rights
Muslim Family Law: Some Misunderstood Aspects Explained
What was the role of Muslim Women Outside Home in Early Islam?
Islam and Gender Equality
Western Feminism or Rights of Women in Islam
Triple Divorce-Need for Change
After Abolition of Triple Talaq-What Next?
APPENDIX
INDEX