Women, Jurisprudence, Islam.
Sedigheh Vasmahghi is a professor at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tehran, specialising in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. In the course of her studies she has come to the conclusion that some of the traditional arguments leading to the current majority view on the rights of women...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2014.
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| Series: | Göttinger Orientforschungen. Iranica.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Preface; Author's introduction to the English translation; Introduction to the Persian original; The image of Muslim women in the world today; Who created this image?; Why has this image of women become current in Islamic jurisprudence?; Jurisprudence and Arab culture; Islam and jurisprudential rulings; Reviewing the arguments and the scope of their validity; Legislation and the exigencies of the time; Polygamy and Islam; Making an additional marriage conditional upon the consent of the wife, and the relevant ruling.
- Response to an ambiguityConditions stipulated in marriage contracts; A discussion of the hạdīths; Benefits of stipulations in the marriage contract; Twenty-three cases of marriage with two wives; A wife's freedom to leave the house; A woman's leaving the house in violation of her husband's right to sexual enjoyment; A woman's right to sexual satisfaction; Should men dominate women?; Responsibilities and rights of a mother towards her child; Custody; Guardianship and its scope; Guardianship and the marriage of a young woman; The Guardianship of the mother; Divorce.
- A critique of jurisprudential rulings on divorceThe woman's consent in divorce; The age of puberty; Physical maturity; Mental maturity; Female judges; An examination of some hạdīths; A woman's testimony; Cases in which a woman's testimony is not acceptable; Testimony as a means of acquiring knowledge; The implications of the ban on women's testimony; Two women's testimony as equivalent to one man's; Blood money for women; Women's Inheritance; Inheritance among the first Muslims; Conclusion; Bibliography; English bibliography; Glossary.
