Women in Classical Islamic Law
Author | : Susan Spectorsky |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789047427810 |
ISBN-13 | : 9047427815 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Download or read book Women in Classical Islamic Law written by Susan Spectorsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on legal and ḥadīth 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 Qurʾān 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 ḥadīth collections.