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First issue (Reform of Islamic Family Law)
Sisters In Islam has come out with its first bi-annual bulletin and has chosen to focus on reformation of Islamic Family Law to reflect the justice of Islam . You may download the fullpage here (in pdf) or by section as stated below:
Editorial
"Welcome to the first issue of BARAZA!, Sisters in Islam biannual issues bulletin. This bulletin brings together articles on contemporary matters affecting Muslims today, with a focus on women’s rights in Islam and an update of SIS activities." Read more
Reforming Family Law in the Muslim World
"In early April, a Universiti of Malaya professor commented that a Muslim father can force his daughter to marry a person of the family’s choice against her will, and that this marriage would be legal and binding in Islam...That same week, however, Saudi Arabia’s top religious authorities banned the practice of forcing women to marry against their will (ijbar), stating that the practice contravenes the objectives of shariah." Read more
Best Practices on Family Law Issues
This table benchmarks current practices in Malaysian Islamic Family Law against practices of Islamic Family Law in the rest of the Muslim world. It thus illustrates the implications of these practices on gender issues...Read more
The Construction of Gender in Islamic Legal Theory
"The conceptions of gender that were codified by the major schools of law, however, were neither unified nor coherent, but competing and contradictory. The various schools of law each had different substantive rules governing marriage and divorce, with no single 'authentic' or unanimous idea of the rights and obligations of spouses within marriage. Over the past 1,000 years, these substantive rules have altered, though the inequality between spouses has remained constant. This helps to demonstrate that while shariah is universal, unitary, and unchanging, fiqh is local, multiple and subject to change." Read more
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