RT Article
T1 ISLAM, WOMEN AND GENDER JUSTICE
JF Journal of Dharma
VO 29
IS 2
SP 183
OP 200
A1 Engineer, Asghar Ali 1939-2013
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837802270
AB It is generally thought that Islam treats women unfairly and gender justice is not possible within Islamic law known as the Shari‘ah law. This assertion is partly true and partly untrue: true as far as the existing Shari‘ah laws are concerned; untrue, as the existing laws were codified during 2nd and 3rd centuries of Islam when general perspective of women’s rights was very different from today’s perspective. The Qur’anic verses which are quite fundamental to the Islamic law, were interpreted so as to be in conformity with the views about gender rights prevailing then.
K1 Differentiating the Essential and the Contextual
K1 Methodology of Creating Islamic Legal Structure
K1 Primacy of Scripture
K1 Qur’an Reinstates Justice to Women
K1 Re-interpreting the Qur’anic Notion of Justice
K1 Sources of Shari‘ah Law