Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist and a founding member of Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She is lead editor of the just-published book “Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition” ( I B Tauris). Ziba co-directed the BAFTA-winning documentary Divorce Iranian Style.
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Published in: 50.50Men in charge? Rethinking authority in Muslim legal traditionThe new book Men in Charge? shows that the assumption that God gave men authority over women is a theological...
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Published in: 50.50How to challenge the patriarchal ethics of Muslim legal traditionOne lesson from the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 2011 Arab revolutions is that activists seeking to promote...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential
Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been...
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Published in: 50.50Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim family laws
Why and how did verse 4:34, and not other verses in the Qur’an, become the foundation for the legal construction of...
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Published in: 50.50Iranian responses to the “Arab spring”: appropriation and contestation
While the Iranian government authorities attempted to appropriate the Arab spring, claiming it was a continuation of...