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Research on Domestic Violence in Muslim Communities
Religion, State Power, and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework for Comparative Analysis. Lisa Hajjar. Law and Social Inquiry. Chicago: Winter 2004.Vol.29, Iss. 1; pg. 1, 38 pgs.This article focuses on the issue of domestic violence in Muslim societies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The analytical framework is comparative, emphasizing four factors and the interplay among them: shari'a (Islamic law), state power, intrafamily violence, and struggles over women's rights. The comparative approach historicizes the problem of domestic violence and impunity to consider the impact of transnational legal discourses (Islamism and human rights) on "local" struggles over rights and law. The use of shari'a creates some commonalities in gender and family relations in Muslim societies, notably the sanctioning and maintenance of male authority over female relatives. However, the most important issue for understanding domestic violence and impunity is the relationship between religion and state power. This relationship takes three forms: communalization, in which religious law is separate from the national legal regime; nationalization, in which the state incorporates religious law into the national legal regime; and theocratization, in which the national legal regime is based on religious law.
Muslim Domestic Violence: BOOKS
Shari‘a Law and Society: Tradition and Change in South Asia/Alamgir Muhammad SerajuddinIn a multi-disciplinary approach, this text discusses the historical, social and legal contexts of Shari'a law reform in South Asia. It examines the law's methodology and juristic bases, the debate between traditionalists and the modernists over their legality, the resultant political and social tensions and their success in improving the social position of Muslim women.
The study argues that through a creative adaptation of law to the changing needs of society, Islamic values and modernisation can be made compatible and Muslim women assured full legal rights.
Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic WorldIn this astonishing book, the product of four years of living in the Islamic world, journalist Goodwin examines the movement that is aggressively spreading a fundamentalist version of Islam throughout much of the world. Her interviews with Muslim women in ten countries both fascinate and disturb, for their candor reveals the movement's profound and often devastating effects on them. Maintaining that Muslims understand the West far better than Westerners understand Islam, Goodwin urges greater understanding of "the world's fastest growing religion" and of its treatment of women, who "are the wind sock showing which way the wind is blowing in the Islamic world"--or as one interviewee put it, "the canaries in the mines." The work itself enhances this understanding.
Burned Alive : A Victim of the Law of MenSouad was a 17-year-old girl living in a small village in Jordan when she had the misfortune of falling in love--an emotion that would lead to an unspeakable act of violence and a lifetime of exile from her homeland. With a childhood marked by hard labor and physical abuse at the hands of her father, who is humiliated by the birth of many daughters and only one son, Souad is desperate to leave home. Enticed into a relationship with a handsome neighbor, her short-lived romance leaves her pregnant. Forbidden to marry until her older sisters find husbands and having brought shame to her family, Souad faces the only acceptable punishment: death. How her family plots to kill her, her harrowing struggle to survive burns over 90% of her body after her brother-in-law douses her with gasoline and sets her on fire, her dramatic escape from Jordan, and her resolve to build a new life for herself is a tale of heartbreaking drama and remarkable courage.
Looking for MORE books on women in Islamic society?
Muslim Domestic Violence: LINKS
- Zawaj.com: Islamic marriage and
family articles
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Family Matters at CrescentLife.com
- Article: Ending Domestic Violence in Muslim Families
- Islamic Society of North America: Domestic Violence Forum
- SoundVision.com: An Imam's Guide to dealing with domestic violence in the West
- Jannah.org: Gender Equality in Islam
- ISNA.net: How to Create a Domestic Violence Program at Your Local Islamic Center
- Muslim Public Affairs Council
- MuslimsOnline.com: Muslim Women's Help Network
- Muslim Women's League
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