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Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world - 3rd edition

This third and completely revised version of the "Knowing Our Rights" handbook is an essential resource for those taking a critical and questioning approach to rights, laws, and constructions of womanhood in Muslim countries and communities and beyond. "Knowing Our Rights" forms part of the...

Land, law & Islam: Property and human rights in the Muslim World. .

In this pioneering work, Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates and their practice. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the “webs of...

Muslim women and property rights

This paper examines the rights to property accorded to women in Islam under direct Quranic injunctions and compares it with the state of these rights in present Muslim societies. It argues that the correct application of Quranic laws will not only materially improve the status of women in Muslim...

Negotiating Islamic Property Rights in UN HABITAT: Policy Makers guide to Women’s Land, Property and Housing Rights Across the World

The author argues that nothing under Islamic law prohibits women from having equal access to property rights through an integrated and compensatory property rights regime. Under the integrated Islamic approach to women’s property rights, a woman’s reduced inheritance rights are theoretically...

Post conflict land challenges in Muslim contexts
Presentation made at the WIPR Capacity Building Workshop, 14-18 June 2010
The presentation focused on the decision of the Religious Appellate Court of Jakarta which recognized women’s equal right to inheritance.
Resources at Marriage and Intra-household Allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and South Africa
The authors test the unitary versus collective model of the household using specially designed data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa. Human capital and individual assets at the time of marriage are used as proxy measures for bargaining power. In all four countries, we reject...
Rural women’s access to land in selected countries

Rural Women’s Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries. Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. This study provides information on the historical background to the Convention and its...

Succession in the Muslim Family
In this comprehensive study, Professor Coulson discusses the classical Islamic law as it applied to problems of succession and reforms introduced by modern statutes.
The Habitat Agenda Goals and Principles, Commitments and the Global Plan of Action
The Habitat Agenda is the main political document that came out of the Habitat II conference in Istanbul, Turkey 3 to 14 June 1996. Adopted by 171 countries, at what was called the City Summit it contains over 100 commitments and 600 recommendations on human settlements issues. The agenda has...