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Islamic law --- Islam --- Women (Islamic law) --- Human rights. --- Muslims --- Customs and practices. --- Social aspects. --- Doctrines.

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The debate surrounding women’s family rights under Sharī’a -derived law has long been held captive to the competing fundamentalisms of universalism and cultural relativism. These two conflicting perspectives fail to promote practical tools through which such laws can be reformed, without prejudice to their religious nature. This book examines the development of Egypt’s Sharī’a -derived family law, and its compatibility with international obligations to eliminate discrimination against women. It highlights the interplay between domestic reform processes, grounded in the tools of takhayyur, talfiq and ijtihad, and international institutions and mechanisms. In attempting to reconcile these two seemingly dissonant value systems, this book underscores the shortcomings of Egypt’s legislation, proposes particular reforms, while simultaneously presenting alternatives to insular interpretations of international women’s rights law.

Women (Islamic law) --- Women --- Islamic law --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)

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Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel. Known in Palestinian discourse as the Nakba, or the Catastrophe, these events of sixty years ago still powerfully resonate in contemporary Palestinian-Jewish relations.

Women, Palestinian Arab. --- Muslim women --- Sex discrimination against women. --- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. --- Women (Islamic law) --- Sex discrimination against women --- Family violence. --- Women.