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Book Review of: The Rights of Women in Islam by Asghar Ali Engineer

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dc.contributor.authorBarazangi, Nimat Hafez
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-26T18:01:09Z
dc.date.available2007-06-26T18:01:09Z
dc.date.issued1994
dc.descriptionCopyright 1994, Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in the edited publication Journal of Islamic Studies following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through Oxford University Press: http://jis.oxfordjournals.org. See also: http://www.eself-learning-arabic.cornell.edu/publications.htm#6en_US
dc.description.abstractEngineer's book though not unique in its purpose, the defense of women's rights in Islam, is different from other books that deal with the same subject in its approach to the "question of women." By attempting , in this book, "to separate what is contextual from what is normative" and to "recapture the original spirit of Qur'anic laws with regard to male-female relationship," the author hoped to equip Muslim feminists with a powerful weapon in their fight for equal status with men (p. vi). The author is to be commended for this unprecedented courage to contradict what has been the customary views on women's rights in Islam, whether by Muslims or non-Muslims. His documentation from the Qur'an, Hadith and early Islamic history of issues like sexual equality, marriage, divorce, and others that have been only presented from the Muqallidun's (those who follow the foot-steps of ancestors) points of view is a major step by a Muslim male scholar.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationJournal of Islamic Studies, Oxford, England. July 1994, pp. 326-328en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/7800
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.subjectThe question of womenen_US
dc.subjectContextual vs. normativeen_US
dc.subjectThe spirit of Quranic Lawen_US
dc.subjectMale-female relationshipen_US
dc.titleBook Review of: The Rights of Women in Islam by Asghar Ali Engineeren_US
dc.typearticleen_US

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