Author: Suraiya Tabassum
Publisher: Indian Social Institute
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 161
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187218614
Description
Women suffer discrimination in every community and country they belong. Same is with Muslim women who have been affected by the social, economic and political issues confronting different communities in India, and by those facing Indian women as a whole. Muslim women are less assertive at present and the reason lies in lack of proper awareness and a feeling of helplessness among them. This not only keeps them backward, suppressed and incapable of making their full contribution to the social, political ad economic life of their community, but also retards the development of Indian society as a whole.
The most important reason is that social ethos colour scriptural injunctions. Another reason is that most of the Islamic theologians believe that Shariat Law (Muslim Personal Law) is divine and need not to be touched, in the context of Indian Muslim community, though their apprehensions can be justified to some extent. This books aims to understand the dynamics of Muslim Personal Law, to analyze its effects on women’s lives, with respect to economic, health, educational and political aspects, and to find out the instances of suffering and resistance.
Contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE
CHAPTER -1
INTRODUCTION
Islam: A Historical Context
Status of women in Indian Muslim Society
Objective of the Research
Methodology
Samples Size and Variables
CHAPTER-II
MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW IN PERSPECTIVE
Muslim Personal Law
Law of Inheritance
Marriage
Mehr
Law of Divorce
Indian Legislation: MPL, 1937-95
CHAPTER III
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE POPULATION
CHAPTER IV
IGNORANCE and Oppression
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
INDEX
GLOSSARY