Hope Springs Eternal: Reforming Inheritance Law in Islamic Societies
Abstract Soon after the Lajnat al-Hurriyāt al-Fardiyya wa-l-Musāwāt (“Committee on Individual Rights and Equality”) submitted its report in June 2018 to the president of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi, the latter ordered the legislature to amend the 1956 family law to achieve equality between men and wo...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2021
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Hawwa
Année: 2021, Volume: 19, Numéro: 2, Pages: 159-176 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions BJ Islam XA Droit |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
the Arab Spring
B women rights B Islamic Law B Inheritance |
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| Résumé: | Abstract Soon after the Lajnat al-Hurriyāt al-Fardiyya wa-l-Musāwāt (“Committee on Individual Rights and Equality”) submitted its report in June 2018 to the president of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi, the latter ordered the legislature to amend the 1956 family law to achieve equality between men and women in inheritance and property rights. Although the authors of the report had written forcefully about how Islamic texts (the Qurʾan and sunna) are compatible with modern law, some of their recommendations suggested a broad inclination to reform the law outside religious tradition and as part of the exigencies of the civil state. These events and ideas brought to the fore questions such as whether classical Islamic law is reformable or obsolete. This paper aims to show that interpretations of Islamic texts that result in radically different inheritance laws have existed since at least the third Islamic century. Inequality has persisted always for political and institutional reasons, not substantive ones. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2086 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Hawwa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341352 |