Islam, Law, and Custom: Redefining Muslim Women’s Rights

Abstract

Muslim women's rights have been the subject of a great deal of debate, most recently in Beijing and Huairou.'While many secular feminists have criticized * Research for this article was partially supported by a summer research grant from the University of Richmond Law School, 1996.The article is partly based on a paper written by this author for the Arab Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Amman, Jordan, September, 1995.The paper is entitled "Mashru' Bahth Naqdi 1i Qawanin al-Ahwal al-Shakhsiyah fi Buldan Arabiyah Mukhtarah," (Draft Critique of Personal Status Codes in Select Muslim Countries), published by ESCWA, United Nations (Doc.No. 94-054, Arabic, November, 1994), final version (Arabic and English) forthcoming 1997.The paper was also presented at the ESCWA Expert Group Meeting on the Arab Family in a Changing Society, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 10-14, 1994.

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