Women's rights in Islam

women’s role in Islamic culture

form of feminist discourse concerned with the role of women in Islam; aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of gender, in public and private life; advocates for women's rights, gender equality, and social justice grounded in Islam

overview about the women's rights in Afghanistan

Zināʾ () or zinā ( or ) is an Islamic legal term referring to unlawful sexual intercourse. According to traditional jurisprudence, zina can include adultery, fornication, prostitution, sodomy, incest, and bestiality. Zina must be proved by testimony of four Muslim eyewitnesses to the actual act of penetration, confession repeated four times and not retracted later. The offenders must have acted of their own free will. Rapists could be prosecuted under different legal categories which used normal evidentiary rules. Accusing zina without presenting the required eyewitnesses is called qadhf (), w

rights of women in Saudi Arabia

overview of the history of liberalism and progressivism within Islam and amongst Muslims

gender policies, punishments of the Taliban

Kithaab, also Kitab (), is a Malayalam-language play featuring a humorous portrayal of a young girl who dreams of calling out the Azaan (vaang), the Islamic call to worship normally recited by a male muezzin or mukri. The girl questions the subjugation of women in her community, and rebels against community norms by dancing with her friends, stealing food denied to her, and demanding the opportunity to call the vaang.

overview of the role and impact of women in the Arab world

' ( ), also called khula', is a procedure based on traditional jurisprudence, that allows a Muslim woman to initiate a divorce by returning the mahr and everything she received from him during their life together, or without returning anything, as agreed by the spouses or judge's decree, depending on the circumstances.

Status of woman's rights in Iran

Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum & Ors. (1985), commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a criminal lawsuit in India, in which the Supreme Court delivered a judgment in favour of providing maintenance (alimony) to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman, Shah Bano Begum from Indore, who had been divorced by her husband Mohammed Ahmed Khan in 1978.

role of women in Islamic scripture

sculpture by Fuad Abdurahmanov in Baku, Azerbaijan

school in Herat, Afghanistan

In Islam, the Istihadha (; flowing blood) represents a disturbance of the menstrual cycle of the woman which makes it difficult for her to perform some religious rituals (ibadah).

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The Mudawana (or Moudawana, ), short for mudawwanat al-aḥwāl ash-shakhṣiyyah (, ), is the personal status code, also known as the family code, in Moroccan law. It concerns issues related to the family, including the regulation of marriage, polygamy, divorce, inheritance, and child custody. Originally based on the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, it was codified after the country gained independence from France in 1956. Its most recent revision, passed by the Moroccan parliament in 2004, was praised by human rights activists for its measures to address women's rights and gender equ

Marriage in Kerala, India

book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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1928 play by Jafar Jabbarly

Muslim feminists' different views on issues surrounding women's dress codes in Islam, especially on the hijab which covers body from hair to chest and niqāb which covers all face

modern slavery by quasi-state-level jihadist groups

role of men and women in Islamic culture

involvement of Muslim women in labor

Islamic legal guardian

verse in the Quran discussing women

Tehzeeb-e-Niswan () was an Islamic weekly magazine for women, started by Sayyid Mumtaz Ali along with his wife Muhammadi Begum in 1898. It is regarded as the pioneering work on women rights in Islam. It was published from Lahore between 1898 and 1949.

German Muslim leader and scholar

leaders of Muslim countries

first woman appointed as a judge in Islamic history

bicycles designed to guard religious requirements for women's modesty