Unheeded Muslim women’s rights to divorce: An empirical study on Chhattisgarh

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Aakriti Dewangan ◽  
Archana Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Probability Method ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Holy Book

India is a multicultural country where every religion has got its freedom to pursue their practices and faith. To accelerate this, India embodies different personal laws for different religions. Amongst them, Muslim community being the biggest minority has always been in limelight. Currently, the burning topic is Triple Talaq practice among them. But instead of resorting to the enactment of Triple Talaq Act 2019, it will be better to acknowledge the Muslim women regarding their rights of divorce well versed in the holy book Quran. The paper is an attempt to evaluate the knowledge of Muslim women of Chhattisgarh regarding their rights of divorce as prescribed in the Quran, by collecting samples from non-probability method. Findings revealed that majority of the women have heard about the various procedures of divorce accorded to them, but they lack clarity regarding this.

Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit De
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
Women In India

This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Islamic law as opposed to each other, the legislation employed a heuristic that guaranteed women's rights by applying Islamic law, allowing Muslim politicians, ulama and women's groups to find common ground on an Islamic modernity. By interrogating the legislative process and the rhetorical positions employed to achieve this consensus, the paper hopes to map how the women's question was being negotiated anew in the space created in the legislatures. The legislative debate over family law redefined the boundaries of the public and the private, and forced nationalists to reconsider the ‘women's question’. The transformation of Islamic law through secular legislation also gave greater licence to the courts in their interpretation, and widened the schism between traditional practitioners of fiqh and modern lawyers.

“Authentic Sharia” as Cause and Cure for Women’s Human Rights Violations in Northern Nigeria

Hawwa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Bunting
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Women's Human Rights

AbstractBy analysing the proposals contained in the report, “Promoting Women’s Rights Through Sharia in Northern Nigeria,” which was published by the Centre for Islamic Legal Studies at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria in 2005, this paper explores the complexities and consequences of a rights strategy grounded in “an authentic understanding of Sharia.” The paper argues that this strategy may further constrain the discourses of debate for Muslim women in northern Nigeria. It also discusses how the strategy privatizes responsibility for poverty eradication, and how it ignores competing languages of social change, including Nigerian and international women’s rights.

scholarly journals Musulmanas y feministas: ¿una ecuación imposible?

2017 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Carmen Vidal Valiña
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Option Value ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Direct Attack

<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Los feminismos islámicos nacieron en los años noventa del siglo XX y desde entonces han sido objeto de severas críticas por parte de quienes consideran que no es posible luchar por los derechos de las mujeres desde las propias creencias. Frente a sus opositores, académicas y activistas abogan por la hermenéutica coránica como herramienta para desvelar las potencialidades que el texto sagrado ofrece para la igualdad. Su discurso es, además, un ataque directo a las concepciones más tradicionales del feminismo occidental y sus representaciones a menudo estereotipadas de las musulmanas.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Islamic feminisms were born in the 90’s and since then they have been subject to criticism by those who believe that it is not possible to fight for women's rights in the framework of a religion. However, the scholars and activists of the Islamic feminisms advocate for the Koranic hermeneutics as a tool to unveil the potential that the sacred text offers for equality. Their discourse is also a direct attack to the most traditional conceptions of Western feminism and its often-stereotyped representations of Muslim women.</p><p> </p><div id="SLG_balloon_obj" style="display: block;"><div id="SLG_button" class="SLG_ImTranslatorLogo" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/imtranslator-s.png'); display: none; opacity: 1;"> </div><div id="SLG_shadow_translation_result2" style="display: none;"> </div><div id="SLG_shadow_translator" style="display: none;"><div id="SLG_planshet" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/bg2.png') #f4f5f5;"><div id="SLG_arrow_up" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/up.png');"> </div><div id="SLG_providers" style="visibility: hidden;"><div id="SLG_P0" class="SLG_BL_LABLE_ON" title="Google">G</div><div id="SLG_P1" class="SLG_BL_LABLE_ON" title="Microsoft">M</div><div id="SLG_P2" class="SLG_BL_LABLE_ON" title="Translator">T</div></div><div id="SLG_alert_bbl"> </div><div id="SLG_TB"><div id="SLG_bubblelogo" class="SLG_ImTranslatorLogo" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/imtranslator-s.png');"> </div><table id="SLG_tables" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td class="SLG_td" align="right" width="10%"><input id="SLG_locer" title="Fijar idioma" type="checkbox" /></td><td class="SLG_td" align="left" width="20%"><select id="SLG_lng_from"><option value="auto">Detectar idioma</option><option value="">undefined</option></select></td><td class="SLG_td" align="center" width="3"> </td><td class="SLG_td" align="left" width="20%"><select id="SLG_lng_to"><option value="">undefined</option></select></td><td class="SLG_td" align="center" width="21%"> </td><td class="SLG_td" align="center" width="6%"> </td><td class="SLG_td" align="center" width="6%"> </td><td class="SLG_td" align="center" width="6%"> </td><td class="SLG_td" align="center" width="6%"> </td><td class="SLG_td" width="10%"> </td><td class="SLG_td" align="right" width="8%"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div id="SLG_shadow_translation_result" style="visibility: visible;"> </div><div id="SLG_loading" class="SLG_loading" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/loading.gif');"> </div><div id="SLG_player2"> </div><div id="SLG_alert100">La función de sonido está limitada a 200 caracteres</div><div id="SLG_Balloon_options" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/bg3.png') #ffffff;"><div id="SLG_arrow_down" style="background: url('chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/img/util/down.png');"> </div><table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="left" width="18%" height="16"> </td><td align="center" width="68%"><a class="SLG_options" title="Mostrar opciones" href="chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/html/options/options.html?bbl" target="_blank">Opciones</a> : <a class="SLG_options" title="Historial de traducciones" href="chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/html/options/options.html?hist" target="_blank">Historia</a> : <a class="SLG_options" title="ImTranslator Ayuda" href="http://about.imtranslator.net/tutorials/presentations/google-translate-for-opera/opera-popup-bubble/" target="_blank">Ayuda</a> : <a class="SLG_options" title="ImTranslator Feedback" href="chrome-extension://mchdgimobfnilobnllpdnompfjkkfdmi/content/html/options/options.html?feed" target="_blank">Feedback</a></td><td align="right" width="15%"><span id="SLG_Balloon_Close" title="Cerrar">Cerrar</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Analysis and Review of Wife Inheritance and the Parents of the Deceased in the Religions with Holy Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Ahmad Reza Behniafar ◽  
Maryam Saadat Eftekhariyan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Critical Argument ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Holy Book

<p>To talk about human rights in the new and modern format and is one of the most important features of the contemporary era and in which, the rights of women is of particular importance. Elimination of legal discrimination due to gender, in different aspects of the life of human rights, with emphasis on women's rights forms the primary focus of all regional and international treaties and Declaration of women's rights. Defending financial rights of women including women's inheritance right is a critical argument.</p>With a careful study, we find that in various religions, wife inheritance is accepted and in divine religions (with the holy book). This issue has been respected and regarding form, there are similarities between the religions about the wife inheritance, However, apart from similarities, regarding essence, they have legislative differences. So in this seminar, the wife inheritance in divine religions is explained and analyzed, and comparative review of wife and parents estate of deceased in different religions is done so the problems in this regard can be obviated.

Muslim Women Leaders and Legal Reform in Postcolonial Kenya

Hawwa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Ousseina Alidou
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The One

The post-Cold War conditions created new socio-political spaces in Kenya for new articulations of Muslim women’s public activism and leadership. This essay focuses on two such Muslim women in terms of their leadership responses to issues of Muslim women’s rights in Kenya as framed within a secular paradigm, on the one hand, and within an Islamic one, on the other. In spite of their differences, the essay concludes the efforts of the two leaders complement each other in fundamental ways, especially with regards to their contributions to the national debates on theShari’aand the reform of the Kadhi’s Court.

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