Men in Charge ?
Subtitle: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781780747163
Subjects: Women in islam; Women, legal status, laws, etc.; Sex discrimination against women
Description: Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, though it varies considerably in its impact, according to both class and region. Since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature tackling this issue, some from a feminist or human rights perspective, some taking the form of an apology for Islamic law.