Career and leadership skill-building for Muslim women in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhila Kovvuri
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Leadership Skill ◽  
Skill Building ◽  
Women In India

Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit De
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
Women In India

This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Islamic law as opposed to each other, the legislation employed a heuristic that guaranteed women's rights by applying Islamic law, allowing Muslim politicians, ulama and women's groups to find common ground on an Islamic modernity. By interrogating the legislative process and the rhetorical positions employed to achieve this consensus, the paper hopes to map how the women's question was being negotiated anew in the space created in the legislatures. The legislative debate over family law redefined the boundaries of the public and the private, and forced nationalists to reconsider the ‘women's question’. The transformation of Islamic law through secular legislation also gave greater licence to the courts in their interpretation, and widened the schism between traditional practitioners of fiqh and modern lawyers.

The politics of saving Muslim women in India: Gendered geolegality, security, and territorialization

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 102257
Author(s):  
Pallavi Gupta ◽  
Banu Gökarıksel ◽  
Sara Smith
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women In India

Status of Muslim Women in India

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 320-321
Author(s):  
Sanghmittra
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women In India
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