'Where only women may judge': developing gender-just Islamic laws in India's all-female 'sharī‘ah courts'
Over the last four years, India has become the centre for a major experiment in the implementation of a so-called ‘gender-just Islam’ by Islamic feminist organisations: the formation of a non-official, female-led sharī‘ah court network, within which women serve as qāẓīs (religious judges) to adjudic...
Main Author: | Jones, J |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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