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Islam and Gender - The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Hardcover)
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Islam and Gender - The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Hardcover)
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How can justice for women be achieved in an Islamic society?
Through a series of lively interviews with clerics in the Iranian
religious centre of Qom, Ziba Mir-Hosseini explores the issue of
gender with Islamic jurisprudence and examines how clerics today
perpetuate and modify these notions. Following the Islamic
Revolution of 1979 and the introduction of religious Sharia'a law
relating to gender and the family, women's rights in Iran suffered
a major setback. However, as Iran's leaders have faced the social
realities of women's lives and aspirations, positive changes have
gradually come about especially in the context of the recent
liberalization in the country. Unique in its approach and its
subject matter, the book relates Mir-Hosseini's position, as a
Mulsim woman and a social anthropologist educated and working in
the West, with Shi'I Muslim thinkers of various backgrounds and
views. In the literature on women in Islam, there is no account of
such a face-to-face encounter, either between religion and gender
politics or between the two genders.
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