Muslim Women Leaders and Legal Reform in Postcolonial Kenya

The post-Cold War conditions created new socio-political spaces in Kenya for new articulations of Muslim women’s public activism and leadership. This essay focuses on two such Muslim women in terms of their leadership responses to issues of Muslim women’s rights in Kenya as framed within a secular p...

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Auteur principal: Alidou, Ousseina (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2016
Dans: Hawwa
Année: 2016, Volume: 14, Numéro: 1, Pages: 53-77
Sujets non-standardisés:B Muslim women’s rights secular and Islamic public activism and leadership female religious authority shari’a reform of Kadhi’s Court Muslim women’s rights and national Constitution
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Résumé:The post-Cold War conditions created new socio-political spaces in Kenya for new articulations of Muslim women’s public activism and leadership. This essay focuses on two such Muslim women in terms of their leadership responses to issues of Muslim women’s rights in Kenya as framed within a secular paradigm, on the one hand, and within an Islamic one, on the other. In spite of their differences, the essay concludes the efforts of the two leaders complement each other in fundamental ways, especially with regards to their contributions to the national debates on the Shari’a and the reform of the Kadhi’s Court.
ISSN:1569-2086
Contient:In: Hawwa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341299