Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse

Muslim feminist, beyond the polemics of its ideological orientation, represents the voice of gender equality in the Muslim world. To them, traditional Islamic jurisprudence contains misogynic views regarding legal status of the female gender which by origin are the projection of patriarchal norms an...

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Main Author:	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/2/SEARHN_evidence.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/3/SEAHR_Conf-evidence.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/10/selected_issues%28HR_conf%29.pdf

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spelling	iium-392802018-06-11T04:13:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/ Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim Muslim feminist, beyond the polemics of its ideological orientation, represents the voice of gender equality in the Muslim world. To them, traditional Islamic jurisprudence contains misogynic views regarding legal status of the female gender which by origin are the projection of patriarchal norms and cultural ethos of the pre-Islamic and medieval eras into textual evidences of Islamic law. They argue that such portrayal of women`s legal rights cannot be sustained in view of egalitarian principle of justice and equality as ordained by the Qur`an. Accordingly, to overcome the problem of disparity between men and women the whole classical Islamic law needs to be deconstructed and an alternative egalitarian narrative be produced. To respond to this challenge, the mainstream discourse is one of emotional outburst and condemnation rather than that of methodological engagement. In this contested intellectual battle, the real losers are the women in Muslim societies in general and in Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia in particular. To bridge the gap and ease tension, this paper, argues for mediating the issue within the frame of traditional Islamic methods of reform and renewal by using critical content analysis of both feminist and conservative methodologie. 2014-10-15 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/2/SEARHN_evidence.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/3/SEAHR_Conf-evidence.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/10/selected_issues%28HR_conf%29.pdf Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah (2014) Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse. In: Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace & Conflict in Southeast Asia, 15th-16th October 2014, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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description	Muslim feminist, beyond the polemics of its ideological orientation, represents the voice of gender equality in the Muslim world. To them, traditional Islamic jurisprudence contains misogynic views regarding legal status of the female gender which by origin are the projection of patriarchal norms and cultural ethos of the pre-Islamic and medieval eras into textual evidences of Islamic law. They argue that such portrayal of women`s legal rights cannot be sustained in view of egalitarian principle of justice and equality as ordained by the Qur`an. Accordingly, to overcome the problem of disparity between men and women the whole classical Islamic law needs to be deconstructed and an alternative egalitarian narrative be produced. To respond to this challenge, the mainstream discourse is one of emotional outburst and condemnation rather than that of methodological engagement. In this contested intellectual battle, the real losers are the women in Muslim societies in general and in Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia in particular. To bridge the gap and ease tension, this paper, argues for mediating the issue within the frame of traditional Islamic methods of reform and renewal by using critical content analysis of both feminist and conservative methodologie.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
author_facet	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
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title	Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse
title_short	Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse
title_full	Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse
title_fullStr	Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse
title_full_unstemmed	Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse
title_sort	selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the muslim feminist discourse
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/2/SEARHN_evidence.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/3/SEAHR_Conf-evidence.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/39280/10/selected_issues%28HR_conf%29.pdf
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Selected women`s legal right in the family: a critical analysis of the Muslim feminist discourse

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