Unveiling the mind: the legal position of women in islam ; a South African context
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| adam_text | Unveiling the Mind
The legal position of women in Islam -
A South African Context
Najma Moosa
BA LLB LLM LLD (UWC)
Senior Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape
Advocate of the High Court of South Africa
JUTA
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition vi
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword to the First Edition xvi
Independent International Assessment of the First Edition xviii
Bibliography xx
Note on Transliteration xxx
Abbreviations xxxi
Latin Abbreviations and Phrases xxxii
Glossary of Arabic Terms xxxiv
Chapter 1: Introductory Perspectives 1
1 1 Background 1
12A personal journey 2
1 3 The purpose of this book 3
1 4 The need for a historical analysis 4
1 5 Outline of this book 5
Chapter 2: Definitions and Terminology 7
2 1 Introduction 7
2 2 The South African Constitution 7
2 3 Religious definitions 8
231 Islam 8
232 Shari a (Islamic law) 10
233 Muslim Personal Law (MPL) 10
Chapter 3: Setting out the Problem 12
3 1 Introduction 12
3 2 Islam and Islamic law {Shari a) 12
3 3 Inequality in the primary sources 13
3 4 Reform - or disloyalty? 14
3 5 Muslim Personal Law and the private/public spheres 15
3 6 Understanding the role of Islamic law 16
Chapter 4: Rights of Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia 17
4 1 Introduction 17
4 2 Historical background 17
4 3 Status of women 18
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Chapter 5: Early Beginnings of Islam (First and Second Periods) 20
5 1 Introduction 20
5 2 The origins of Islam 20
5 3 The revelation of the Quran 21
5 4 Focus on the Qur an 22
541 Structure of the Qur an 22
542 The legal verses 23
543 Verses dealing with women s issues 24
544 Normative and contextual verses 24
545 Moral norms and legal rules 25
5 5 The Sunna 26
551 Brief description 26
552 Authority of the Sunna 26
553 Codification of Ahadith 27
554 Transmission of Ahadith by women 29
555 Role of the Sunna 29
556 Art Ahadith a true reflection of the Prophet s words and
deeds? 29
5 6 Additional sources of Islam 30
5 7 Concluding remarks 31
Chapter 6: The Rights of Women after the Advent of Islam 32
6 1 Introduction 32
6 2 Marriage 32
621 Concurrence among male jurists regarding inter-religious
marriages: a critique of this view 32
622 Polygyny 37
623 Divorce and custody of children 41
624 Additional aspects of marriage 42
6 3 The Islamic ethic of modesty, Muslim women s veiling (hijab) and
seclusion or segregation of the sexes 43
6 4 Female infanticide 45
6 5 Succession 45
6 6 Ownership of property 46
6 7 Role of women 46
6 8 Concluding remarks 47
Chapter 7: Emergence of a Muslim Empire (Third and Fourth
Periods) 48
7 1 Introduction 48
7 2 The Third Period (11-40 AH/ 632- 661 AD) 48
721 Historical background 48
722 The Qur an and Sunna in the Third Period 49
Contents xiii
723 Compilation of the Qur an as a written document 49
724 Sequence of chapters in the Qur an 50
725 Ethical and legal dimensions 50
726 Women s status during the Third Period 51
7 3 The Fourth Period (41-132 AH/ 661—750 AD) 52
731 Historical background 52
732 Development of the judiciary 52
733 Emergence of Islamic law 53
Chapter 8: Emergence of the Schools of Jurists and the Road to Modernity (Fifth
and Sixth Periods) 54
8 1 Introduction 54
8 2 The Fifth Period (132-656 AH/ 750-1258 AD; 132-300
AH/750—900 AD): Historical background 54
8 3 Changes in women s status 55
8 4 The Abbasids and Islam 55
8 5 The emergence of Islamic law 56
8 6 Establishment of the Sunni schools 56
861 The Hanafi school 57
862 Hanafi legal theory 58
863 The Maliki school 59
864 The Shaji i school 59
865 Compilation of the sources of law 60
866 The Hanbali school 61
8 7 Other schools of law 61
8 8 Differences among male jurists regarding abortion 62
8 9 Consequences for women of variations of opinion among jurists 64
8 10 Collections of Ahadith 65
8 11 Interpretation of the Qur an 67
8 12 Closing the doors of interpretation 68
8 13 Concluding remarks on the Fifth Period 70
8 14 The Sixth Period (1400s to the early 1800s) 70
8 15 Status of women in the Sixth Period 71
Chapter 9: Reform and Modernity (Seventh Period: 1800s to date) 73
9 1 Introduction 73
9 2 Social reform and women s rights 73
9 3 Colonialism, intellectualism and reform movements (1800-1945) 74
9 4 Role of women in reform 76
9 5 Independence: 1945 onwards 77
9 6 Codification of MPL (1950—) 78
9 7 Reform of MPL per se 78
9 8 Improvement in the status of women through legal reform 79
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9 9 The rise of Islamism 81
9 10 Concluding remarks 82
Chapter 10: Different Perspectives on Women and Islam 84
10 1 Introduction 84
10 2 Ideological perspectives: conservative, fundamentalist (Islamist),
modernist and progressive perspectives 84
10 2 1 Brief overview 85
10 2 2 Ideological perspectives and the Qur an 87
10 2 3 Practical implications of the ideological perspectives 88
10 3 Women s Islamist and feminist perspectives - a work in progress 89
10 3 1 Introduction 89
10 3 2 Feminist perspectives 91
10 3 3 Examples of Muslim feminists and gender activists 92
10 34A feminist agenda ? 97
10 3 5 Feminism and Islamist women 98
10 4 Resolving the dilemma of gender equality? 101
10 4 1 Under-utilised gender neutral and ethico-religious
Quranic injunctions favouring equality 101
10 4 2 Over-utilised gender discriminatory and socio-economic Quranic
injunctions favouring inequality 106
10 5 Methodologies for reform 108
10 6 Concluding remarks Ill
Chapter 11: Equality: Divorce as a Case Study 113
11 1 Introduction 113
11 2 General requirements of talaq (dissolution) 114
11 3 Legal implications of divorce 117
11 3 1, Revocable (raj i) and irrevocable (ba in) divorces 117
11 3 2 Inheritance 117
11 3 3 Maintenance 117
11 3 4 Dower 118
11 3 5 Remarriage 118
11 4 Forms of divorce 119
11 4 1 Divorce by the husband 119
11 4 2 Divorce by the wife A 119
11 4 3 Divorce by mutual agreement of the spouses 120
11 4 4 Judicial process {tafriq) 120
11 4 5 Option of puberty 120
11 5 Comments on divorce 120
11 6 Concluding remarks 121
Contents xv
Chapter 12: Issues and Challenges Emerging from the Overview of
the Historical Development of Islamic Law 123
12 1 Taking a fresh look at history 123
12 2 The impact of culture 124
12 2 1 An example of the impact of culture: the Islamic veil
(hijab ) debate 126
12 3 Muslim women and advocacy 129
12 3 1 Knowledge of Arabic and Islam 130
12 3 2 Hie importance of role models 131
12 3 3 Women working together 131
12 4 Towards equality as sameness or as difference 132
12 4 1 Equality as sameness or as difference 132
12 4 2 Equality in Muslim countries? 133
12 5 Exploring solutions to achieve equality 134
12 5 1 Taking direct responsibility 134
12 5 2 Ijtihad as a mechanism of reform 136
12 53A shift in focus: the modernist approach to reform 139
12 6 Being a Muslim woman in South Africa today 142
Chapter 13: A Snapshot of Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in South
Africa: Past to Present 143
Chapter 14: Conclusions 163
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