Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two perceptions: a conservative Islamic approach and a liberal Western approach. At the heart of this debate Muslim women are seeking to reclaim their right to speak in order to re-appropriate their own destinies, calling for the equality and liberation that is at the heart of the Qur'an. However, with few female commentators on the meaning of the Qur'an and an overreliance on the readings of the Qur'an compiled centuries ago this message is often lost. In this book Asma Lamrabet demands a rereading of the Qur'an by women that focuses on its spiritual and humanistic messages in order to alter the lived reality on the ground. By acknowledging the oppression of women, to different degrees, in social systems organized in the name of religion and also rejecting a perspective that seeks to promote Western values as the only means of liberating them, the author is able to define a new way. One in which their refusal to remain silent is an act of devotion and their demand for reform will lead to liberation. Asma Lamarbet is a pathologist in Avicenna Hospital, Rabat, Morocco. She is also an award-winning author of many articles and books tackling Islam and women's issues. Myriam Francois-Cerrah is a writer and broadcaster whose articles have been published in the Guardian, Salon, and elsewhere.

Pembentukan institusi kekeluargaan Islam bukan hanya dilihat kepada kewujudan hubungan sosial antara suami, isteri dan anak-anak, bahkan ia haruslah berpandukan hukum-hakam Islam sebagai teras pembentukan keluarga agar mawaddah, rahmah dan sakinah sentiasa memenuhi segenap ruang rumah tangga yang dibina. Buku ini mengupas mengenai hukum-hakam pembentukan institusi kekeluargaan Islam bermula daripada panduan memilih pasangan sehingga kepada perceraian dan hak penjagaan anak-anak. Perbincangan buku ini digarap berdasarkan mazhab Syafi'i sebagai pandangan utama dan diperkemaskan dengan rujukan terhadap Enakmen Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam (Negeri Pulau Pinang) 2004.

Fiqih adalah salah satu bidang ilmu dalam syariat Islam yang secara khusus membahas persoalan hukum yang mengatur berbagai aspek kehidupan manusia, baik kehidupan pribadi, bermasyarakat maupun kehidupan manusia dengan Allah, Tuhannya. Beberapa ulama fikih seperti Imam Abu Hanifah mendefinisikan fikih sebagai pengetahuan seorang muslim tentang kewajiban dan haknya sebagai hamba Allah. Fiqih membahas tentang cara beribadah dan muamalah, sesuai yang tersurat dalam Al-Qur'an dan Sunnah. Dalam Islam, terdapat empat mazhab dari Sunni yang mempelajari tentang fiqih. Mazhab tersebut adalah mazhab Hanafi, mazhab Maliki, mazhab Syafi'i, dan mazhab Hanbali. Mengapa kita butuh ilmu fiqih wanita secara khusus? Bukankah Allah SWT menciptakan laki-laki dan wanita dalam kedudukan yang sama dan sederajat? Mengapa harus dibeda-bedakan antara fiqih secara umum dan fiqih wanita secara khusus? Lalu hal-hal apa saja yang bisa dijadikan bahan pertimbangan untuk membahas ilmu fiqih wanita secara khusus. Ada begitu banyak alasan dan latar belakang mengapa kita membutuhkan kajian khusus ilmu fiqih wanita. Di antaranya karena Allah SWT tidak hanya menciptakan laki-laki, tetapi juga menciptakan wanita dan disebutkan secara khusus dan tersendiri. Juga karena Allah SWT menciptakan wanita berbeda dengan laki-laki, baik secara fisik dan psikis. Dan pada akhirnya hukum-hukum yang Allah SWT turunkan juga banyak yang berbeda antara wanita dan laki-laki. Buku ini mengajarkan kita dalam memahami fiqih perempuan.

In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been more fluid and flexible than previously thought. Although the legal system had a consistent patriarchal orientation, it was modulated by sensitivities to the practical needs of women, men, and children. In her comprehensive overview of a field long neglected by scholars, Tucker deepens our understanding of how societies, including our own, construct gender roles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to wo

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first book to offer a history of the Hajj from one of Islam's largest and most important regions.