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“What is our share? A look at the laws of inheritance”

Qur’anic verses define as heirs several classes of kin that were previously unable to inherit – most notably women such as wives, daughters, mothers and sisters – and distributed the estate in an equitable way that was a drastic improvement from the pre-Islamic scheme. The Qur’an specifies three...

“Who says Shari’a demands the stoning of women?: A description of Islamic law and constitutionalism”

Quraishi gives a very interesting lecture describing the methods by which Muslim scholars derive fiqh and shariah and implement them. She uses stoning to illustrate the various pathways this method could take, particularly focusing on what constitutes authority when issuing...

“Wife Battery in Islam: A Comprehensive Understanding of Interpretations”

This article presents a comprehensive discussion of Islamic interpretations of wife beating. Four schools with varying Islamic perspectives on the issue of wife beating are explored. The schools are classified based on the severity of the patriarchal values reflected in the structural...

“Wife Beating in Islamic Perspective”

The question in this post is: “Does Islam allow wife beating? Some husbands are violent and they say that the Qur'an allows them to beat their wives. Is there any logical explanation given regarding men being allowed to beat their wives, as stated in surat An-Nisa', verse 34?” The reply...

“Wolof women, economic liberalization, and the crisis of masculinity in rural Senegal”

As stated in the Abstract, “among Wolof farmers in Senegal's Peanut Basin, patriarchal control of household dependents has diminished in conjunction with economic liberalization, state disengagement, and the formation of rural weekly markets. This article builds on twenty-six months of...

“Women and money: lessons from Senegal”
This paper mentions women’s ownership of, access to and control over land in the context of the complexity and diversity of women's informal financial practices in Senegal. It suggests that these practices are at the centre of a constant dialectic between short-term and long-term horizons, between...
“Women and Violence”

The objective of this report is to define the situation of violence against women in Iran. A glaring problem that must be reconised is the inadequate amount of sources of statistics and information. Up until a few years ago the issue of violence against women was not recognised in Iran, but...

“Women, land ownership and development in the Sudan”

Few Sudanese women are land owners despite their role in food production and new discriminatory legislation relating to land registration and tenancy distribution is making ti even more difficult for women agriuc,tural workers to improve their situation. Aksi discusses three case studies which...

“Women, land, and labor: negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau peasant community”
One of the central dynamics shaping agrarian change, and one seldom highlighted, is the structure and ideology of kinship and clientage in peasant communities. This article examines the importance of kin ties in the maintenance of nonwage labor relationships in a wet-rice farming community in West...
“Women, land, labour and survival: getting some basic facts straight”
In the context of the current food crisis confronting most sub-Saharan African economies the need to unmask the identities of rural producers from a gender perspective is reinforced. This article focuses on three major issues which have tended towards ambiguity in analyses of rural political...