Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia

The rise of Muslim feminist movement is a positive development in the intellectual landscape of Muslim debate on women`s rights in contemporary Muslim societies. As a pressure group, their struggle to improve the condition of women against the odds of conservative Muslim legal scholars‟ resistance...

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Main Author: Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling iium-452402018-06-25T04:45:43Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45240/ Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim The rise of Muslim feminist movement is a positive development in the intellectual landscape of Muslim debate on women`s rights in contemporary Muslim societies. As a pressure group, their struggle to improve the condition of women against the odds of conservative Muslim legal scholars‟ resistance and culture of patriarchy indubitably has somewhat impacted reforms in the domain of state- enacted Islamic family laws, such as in Malaysia. Nevertheless, beyond the polemics over the legitimacy of their approach, their main handicap is finding grounds for acceptability in society. To bridge this gap, the paper argues for a productive mediating dialogue between Muslim feminist and mainstream outlooks for socially acceptable reform. 2015-10-17 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45240/1/45240.pdf Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah (2015) Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia. In: Kuala Lumpur International Communication, Education, Language & Social Science Conference, 17-18 October 2015, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) http://klicels.com/
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Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia
description The rise of Muslim feminist movement is a positive development in the intellectual landscape of Muslim debate on women`s rights in contemporary Muslim societies. As a pressure group, their struggle to improve the condition of women against the odds of conservative Muslim legal scholars‟ resistance and culture of patriarchy indubitably has somewhat impacted reforms in the domain of state- enacted Islamic family laws, such as in Malaysia. Nevertheless, beyond the polemics over the legitimacy of their approach, their main handicap is finding grounds for acceptability in society. To bridge this gap, the paper argues for a productive mediating dialogue between Muslim feminist and mainstream outlooks for socially acceptable reform.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
author_facet Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
author_sort Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
title Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia
title_short Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia
title_full Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia
title_fullStr Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Muslim women activist`s approach to reforming Islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in Malaysia
title_sort muslim women activist`s approach to reforming islamic family law: the problem of contextualization in malaysia
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/45240/
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