There has long been a need for an objective study such as this dealing with the legal rights and obligations of women under the Sharia and under modern Arab Isl

Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic legal tradition and describes how Islamic law entitles individuals to justice accordin

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives

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