Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man?

Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man?

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Book Description
This important study offers a conceptual analysis of gender and human rights under Islamic law, state law and international law, and extends this analysis to a specific examination of the nature of women's rights in the Islamic tradition. It explores the disparity between the theoretical perspective on women's rights and its applications to Muslim jurisdictions, determined by elements of cultural practices, socio-economic realities and political expediences, and uses the example of Pakistan to demonstrate the divergence between the theory and practice of Islamic law in these jurisdictions. It discusses the concept of an emerging 'operative' Islamic law, which includes principles of Islamic law, secular codes and popular custom and usage.

About the Author
Shaheen Sardar Ali is Professor of Law at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan, and a former Director of the Women's study Centre at the same university. She is the only woman legal academic holding the position of Professor of Law in Pakistan. In 1998, she gained a Ph.D. at the University of Hull, UK, and is currently based at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK. She has extensive experience of gender and human rights issues relating to Islam, and has written or contributed to numerous books and journals on the subject.

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Book Contents:

1. Geschichte Und Probleme Der Religionswissenschaft (Studies in the History of Religions :)
2. Good Cents Hints
3. Iamblichus: De Mysteriis (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)
4. Islamic Desk Reference: Compiled from the Encyclopaedia of Islam
5. Islamic Medical Ethics in the Twentieth Century (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
6. Judgement and Community Conflict: Paul's Use of Apocalyptic Judgement Language in 1 Corinthians 3 - 5-4 - 5 (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)
7. Le Systeme De L'Incanto Des Galees Du Marche a Venise(Fin Xiiie-Milieu Xve Siecle) (The Medieval Mediterranean , Vol 5)
8. Letters in the British Museum, Part 2: Transliterated and Translated (Altbabylonische Briefe in Umschrift Und Ubersetzung, No 13)
9. Levinas and Biblical Studies (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)
10. Light: Creative Lighting Solutions Inside & Out

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