Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He is editor of Shari”a Politics: Law and Society in the Modern Muslim World (IUP, 2011).
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Mulki Al-Sharmani & Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Men in Charge?
Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male a …
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Robert W. Hefner: Shari’a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics
Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing to …
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Christian Moe & Kari Vogt: Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discove …
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Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Islam and Gender
Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women’s rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the implementers of the …
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Mulki Al-Sharmani & Sarah Marsso: Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage
The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, d …
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€23.48
Richard Tapper & Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Islam and Democracy in Iran
In today’s world all eyes are on Iran, which has grappled with an experiment that has had a massive global impact. For some, the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 was the triumph of a modern, political I …
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€28.87
Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Marriage on Trial
Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women’s studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even the most patriarchal elements of Islamic law to their …
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€30.16
Lena Larsen & Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law
Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in o …
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€26.61
Evelyn A. Early & Becky Schulthies: Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition
The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a gra …
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