Femin Ijtihad

UK ARTICLES, TERM 2 (Jan-March), 2009.

Aahraa, M.,1998. 'The concept of custody in Islamic law' Arab Law Quarterly

Abbott, F., 1962.  Pakistan's New Marriage Law: A Reflection of Qur'anic Interpretation. Asian Survey, Vol. 1, No. 11, pp. 26-32. 

Ali, S., 1997. Is an adult Muslim woman sui juris? Some reflections on the concept of "consent in marriage" without a wali (with particular reference to the Saima Waheed case). Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol 3.

Ali, S., 1998. Women's human rights in Islam: towards a theoretical framework. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol 4.

Ali, S., 2005. Educating lawyers for transnational challenges: the challenge of Islamic law. Journal of Legal Education, Vol 55.

Ali, S., 2006. Rights of the child under Islamic law and laws of Pakistan: a thematic overview. Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law, Vol 2, pp. 1-16.

Alidadi, K., 2005. The western judicial answer to Islamic Talaq: peeking through the gate of conflict of laws' UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law 5(1).

An-Naim, A. 2005. Rights and scholarship for social change In Islamic communities. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Vol  2(1).

Arabi, O., 2001. The dawning of the third millennium in the Shari'a: Egypt's Law No.1 of 2000, or Women May Divorce at Will. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol 16.

Baderin, M. 2001. Establishing Areas of Common Ground Between Islamic Law and International Human Rights. The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol 5, No 2, pp. 72-113.

Bakht, N. 2004. Family Arbitration Using Sharia Law: Examining Ontario's Arbitration Act and Its Impact On Women. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Behrouz, A., N., 2003.  Transforming Islamic Family Law: State Responsibility and the Role of Internal Initiative.  Columbia Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 5., pp. 1136-1162.

Behrouz, A.N., 2005 / 2006. Women's Rebellion: Towards A New Understanding Of Domestic Violence In Islamic Law. UCLA Journal, Vol.5, No.153. 

Buskens, L., 2003. Recent Debates On Family Law Reform In Morocco: Islamic Law As Politics In An Emerging Public Sphere. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 70-13.

Carroll L., 1979.  The Muslim Family Law Ordinance, 1961: Provisions and procedures – a reference paper for current research.  Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol.13, No. 1.

Carroll, L., 1998. Orphaned Grandchildren in Islamic Law of Succession: Reform and Islamization in Pakistan: The Islamic Inheritance System. Islamic Law and Society, Vol.5.

Carroll, L., 1996. Quran 2:229 -  A Charter Granted to the Wife? Judicial Khul in Pakistan. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 91-126.

Charrad, M., 1992. State and gender in the Maghrib. WAF Journal, No. 3, pp. 10-12.

El Alami, D., 1999-2000. Remedy or Device? The System of Khul' and the Effects of its Incorporation into Egyptian Personal Status Law. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 6.

El Fadel, M., 1998. Reinterpreting the Guardian's Role in the Islamic Contract of Marriage: The Case of Maliki School. Islamic Law and Culture, Vol. 3.

El-Cheikh, N. 1998-1999. The 1998 Proposed Civil Marriage Law in Lebanon: the Reaction of the Muslim Communities. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 5.

Fadel, M., 1997. Two Women, One Man: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in Medieval Sunni Legal Thought. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 185-204.

Goolam, M.H.N., 2001. Gender Equality in Islamic Family Law: Dispelling Common Misconceptions and Misunderstanding. International Family Law Journal.

Grossman, A., 2003-04. Islamic Land: Group Rights, National Identity and Law. UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Vol. 3, No. 53.

Hasan, A., 1999. In Practice: Marriage in Islamic Law. Family Law Journal , Vol. 29.

Jawad, H., 2003.  Muslim Feminism: A Case Study of Amina Wadud's Qur'an and Woman, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol 42, No. 1.

Jilani, T.H., 2001.Implementing the Right To Marry: A View from the Pakistani Courts. International Family Law Journal.

Jindani, M. 2004-2005. The Concept of Mahr (Dower) in Islamic Law: The Need of Statutory Recognition by English Law. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol.11.

Kamali, M. H., 1998. Punishment in Islamic Law: A Critique of the Hudud Bill of Kelantan, Malaysia. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 203-234.

Kar, M., 2007. Iranian Law and Women's Rights. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 4, Iss. 1.

Kebir, Y., 1998-1999. The Status of Children and their Protection in Algerian Law. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 5.

Kennedy, C. H., 1999. Islamic Legal Reform and the Status of Women in Pakistan. Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 2.

Layish, A., 1978. The Contribution of the Modernists to the Secularization of Islamic Law. Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 263-277.

Maddy-Weitzman, B., 2005. Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle Over the Personal Status Law. Middle East Journal ,Vol. 59. No. 3, pp. 393-410

Majid, A. 1998. The Politics of Feminism in Islam.  Signs. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 321-361.

Marcotte, R.D., 2005. How Far Have the Reforms Gone in Islam? Women Studies International Forum, Vol. 26.

Mehdi, R., 2005. Facing the Enigma: Talaq-I Tafwiz A Need of a Muslim Woman in Nordic Perspective. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Vol. 33.

Meron, Y., 2001. The Moslem Marriage Between Status and Contract. Studia Islamica, No. 92, pp. 197-203.

Mir-Hosseini, Z., 2002-2003. Islamic Law and Feminism: The Story of a Relationship. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 9.

Moghadam V.M. and Roudi-Fahimi, F., 2005.  Reforming Family Laws to Promote Progress in Middle East and North Africa, Population Reference Bureau.

Moors, A., 2003. Public Debates On Family Law Reform Participants, Positions, And Styles Of Argumentation In The 1990s. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-11.

Moosa, E., 2002. The Poetics and Politics of Law After Empire: Reading Women's Rights In The Contestations Of Law. UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Vol.1, No. 1.

Moosa, N., 2004. An Over-View of Divorce and Dispute Resolution in Islamic Law. International Family Law Journal.

Qureshi, A., 1997.  Her honour: an Islamic critique of the rape laws of Pakistan from a Woman-sensitive perspective, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol 18, No 2.

Rahman, F. 1980.  A Survey of Modernization of Muslim Family Law. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 451-465.

Rahmatian, A. 1996. Termination of Marriage in Nigerian Family Laws: The need for Reform and the Relevance of the Tanzanian Experience. International Journal of Law, pp. 281-316.

Ramadan, M. A., 2006. Divorce Reform in the Sharia Court of Appeals in Israel (1992-2003). Islamic Law and Society, Vol.13 ,No.2.

Shah, N., A., 2006.  Women’s Human Rights in the Koran: An Interpretive Approach.  Human Rights Quarterly, pp. 868–903.

Shaham, R., 1999. State, Feminists and Islamists-the Debate Over Stipulations in Marriage Contracts in Egypt. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, No. 62.

Shehadeh, L.R., 2000. Women In The Discourse Of Sayyid Qutb. Arab Studies Quarterly.

Spectorsky, S., 2001.Theme Issue: Hadith And Fiqh. Islamic Law and Society, Vol.8, No.3.

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Welcham, L., 2001. Capacity, Consent and Under-Age Marriage in Muslim Family Law. The International Survey of Family Law.

Yahia al-Hibri, A., 2000-2001. Muslim Women's Rights in the Global Village: Challenges and Opportunities, Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 15, No. 1/2 , pp. 37-66.

Yazbak, M., 2001- 2002. Minor Marriages and Khiyar Al-Bulugh in Ottoman Palestine: A Note on Women's Strategies in a Patriarchal Society. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 9.

Zahraa, M., 1996. The Legal Capacity of Women in Islamic Law. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3., pp. 245-263.

Zahraa, M. & Malek, N.M., 1998. The Concept of Custody in Islamic Law. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2. pp. 155-177. 

Abbott, Nabia, 1941, “Women and the State on the Eve of Islam”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 259-284

Ansari, Iqbal A. 1991, “Muslim Women's Rights: Goals and Strategy of Reform”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 17, pp. 1095-1097

Arabi, Oussama. 2001, “The Dawning of the Third Millennium on Shari'a: Egypt's Law no. 1 of 2000, or Women May Divorce at Will”, Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 2-21

Arat, Yesim. 1998, “Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey”, Political Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 117-131

Bahramitash, Roksana. 2002, “Islamic Fundamentalism and Women's Employment in Indonesia”, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 255-272

Cammack, Mark & Young, Lawrence A. & Heaton, Tim. 1996, “Legislating Social Change in an Islamic Society-Indonesia's Marriage Law”, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 45-73

 Dawla, Aida Seif El. 2000, “Reproductive Rights of Egyptian Women: Issues for Debate”, Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 8, No. 16, pp. 45-54

Engineer, Asghar Ali. 1994, “Status of Muslim Women”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 297-300

Hasan, Rafia. 1981, "The Role of Woman as Agents of Change and Development in Pakistan", Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 68-75

Hashim, Iman. 1999, “Reconciling Islam and Feminism”, Gender and Development, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 7-14

Honarvar, Nayer. 1988, “Behind the Veil: Women's Rights in Islamic Societies”, Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 355-387

Ilkkaracan, Pinar and Women for Women's Human Rights. 1998, “Exploring the Context of Women's Sexuality in Eastern Turkey”, Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 6, No. 12, pp. 66-75

Khadduri, Majid. 1978, “Marriage in Islamic Law: The Modernist Viewpoints”, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 213-218

Khan, Shahnaz. 2003, “"Zina" and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women”, Feminist Review, No. 75, pp. 75-100

Kimber, Richard. 1998, “The Qurʾanic Law of Inheritance”, Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 291-325

Mayer, Ann. 1978, “Developments in the Law of Marriage and Divorce in Libya since the 1969 Revolution”, Journal of African Law, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 30-49

Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf. 1994, “Reproductive Choice in Islam: Gender and State in Iran and Tunisia”, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 41-51

Shaham, Ron. 1994, “Judicial Divorce at the Wife's Initiative: The Sharīʿa Courts of Egypt, 1920-1955”, Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 217-257

Shaham, Ron. 1995, "Custom, Islamic Law, and Statutory Legislation: Marriage Registration and Minimum Age at Marriage in the Egyptian Sharīʿa Courts”, Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 258-281

Shatzmiller, Maya. 1995, “Women and Property Rights in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib: Social Patterns and Legal Discourse”, Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 219-257

Siraj, M. 1968, “Recent Changes in the Administration of Muslim Family Law in Malaysia and Singapore”, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 221-232

Skalli, Loubna H. 2001, “Women and Poverty in Morocco: The Many Faces of Social Exclusion”, Feminist Review, No. 69, pp. 73-89

Smith, Jane I. 1979, “Women in Islam: Equity, Equality, and the Search for the Natural Order”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 517-537

Starr, June. 1989, “The Role of Turkish Secular Law in Changing the Lives of Rural Muslim Women, 1950-1970”, Law & Society Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 497-523

Welchman, Lynn. 1988, “The Development of Islamic Family Law in the Legal System of Jordan”, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 868-886

Yazback, Mahmoud. 2002, “Minor Marriages and Khiyār al-Bulūgh in Ottoman Palestine: A Note on Women's Strategies in a Patriarchal Society”, Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 386-409

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