Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sources

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21151-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Themes in Islamic Studies

Drawing on legal and hadith texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the development of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered about women's issues. All assumed a woman would marry and thus the book concentrates on women's family life.
The introduction establishes the historical framework within which the jurists worked. A chapter on Qur'an verses devoted to women's lives is followed by chapters on marriage and divorce which compare the views of jurists during the formative period. The fourth chapter describes the evolution from the formative to the classical periods. The fifth uses material from both periods to describe the array of legal opinion about other aspects of women's lives in and outside their homes. Throughout, jurists' opinions are juxtaposed with relevant quotations from contemporaneous hadith collections.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history of the development of Islamic law and of the place of women in it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spectorsky, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Women in the Qur'an
2. Marriage in the Formative Period
3. Divorce in the Formative Period
4. From the Formative to the Classical Periods
5. Women’s lives
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Quran’s Verses
Index of Names
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Spectorsky, Susan
Susan A. Spectorsky, Ph.D. (1974) in Middle East Languages, Columbia University, is Associate Professor Emerita of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She has published on early Islamic Law and is the author of Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh (Austin, 1993).

Susan A. Spectorsky, Ph.D. (1974) in Middle East Languages, Columbia University, is Associate Professor Emerita of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She has published on early Islamic Law and is the author of Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh (Austin, 1993).