Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law

by Lena Larsen, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Christian Moe et al.

2012 288 pages eng

"Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in other religious traditions, the idea of equality between men and women was neither central to notions…