Title:
Justice and beauty in Muslim marriage : towards egalitarian ethics and laws
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
London, England : Oneworld Academic, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
xiii, 394 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780861544479
Abstract:
"The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades. In this volume, a diverse group of scholars explore how egalitarian marital relations can be supported from within Islamic tradition. Brought together by the Musawah movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, they examine ethics and laws related to marriage and gender relations from the perspective of the Qur'an, Sunna, Muslim legal tradition, historical practices and contemporary law reform processes. Collectively they conceptualize how Muslim marriages can be grounded in equality, mutual well-being and the core Qur'anic principles of 'adl (justice) and i hsan (goodness and beauty)." -- Back cover.
Contents:
Introduction: Towards marriage as a partnership of equals / Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger and Sarah Marsso -- The Qur’an -- Qur’anic ethics of marriage / Omaima Abou-Bakr, Asma Lamrabet and Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Reading the Qur’an through women’s experiences / Nur Rofiah -- ‘ihsān’: A mandate for beauty and goodness in family relations / Amira Abou-Taleb -- Lessons from the Prophet -- Reclaiming Khadīja and Muhammad’s marriage as an Islamic paradigm: Towards a new history of the Muslim present / Shadaab Rahemtulla and Sara Ababneh -- ‘Your wife enjoys rights over you’ or does she? Marriage in the Hadith / Yasmin Amin -- ‘Qirā’a Mubādala’: Reciprocal reading of Hadith on marital relationships / Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir -- Islamic legal theory and ethics -- Rethinking Muslim marriage rulings through structural ‘Ijtihād’ / Mohsen Kadivar -- Reform of ‘Uṣūl al-Fiqh’ and marriage: A spiritually integrative approach / Nevin Reda -- Ethics and gender equality in Islam: A constructivist approach / Mariam Al-Attar -- Law and practice -- Historicizing Muslim marriage practices in pre-modern Islamic Egypt / Hoda El Saadi -- Muslim family laws: Trajectories of reform / Lynn Welchman, Zahia Jouirou and Marwa Sharafeldin -- Justice, Refinement and Beauty: Reflections on marriage and spirituality / Sa’diyya Shaikh.
Language:
English
