Islam and Gender : The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
256 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1850432694
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Language: English
Publish: January 16, 2000
How can justice for women be achieved in an Islamic society? Through a series of lively interviews with clerics in the Iranian religious centre of Qom, Ziba Mir-Hosseini explores the issue of gender with Islamic jurisprudence and examines how clerics today perpetuate and modify these notions.