Arabic-L:GEN:References on ME Women and Family legal issues

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Date: 03 Oct  2003
From: Paul Auchterlonie <J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject:References on ME Women and Family legal issues

[moderator's note: I passed this on to the student who requested the  
information, but decided to also post it, since it contains a wealth of  
references that might be useful to many of our subscribers.  Thanks,  
Paul!]

For Sarah Kline.

On the official laws governing women and family issues in the Middle
East, see (among many other sources):

Ali, Shaheen Sardar
Gender and human rights in Islam and international
law : equal before Allah, unequal before man?
The Hague, Boston, Kluwer Law International, 2000

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Islam and equality : debating the future of women's
and minority rights in the Middle East and North Africa
New York, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1999

Muslim women and the politics of participation : implementing
the Beijing platform; edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl .
Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Mahmood Tahir
Statutes of personal law in Islamic contries : history, text and
analysis
New Delhi, India and Islam Research Council, 1995.

Esposito, John L
Women in Muslim family law; John L. Esposito with Natana J.
DeLong-Bas
2nd ed
Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2001.

Shaham, Ron
Family and the courts in modern Egypt : a study based on decisions by
the shari`a courts, 1900-1955
Leiden, New York, Brill, 1997.

El Alami, Dawoud Sudqi
The marriage contract in Islamic law in the Shari‘ah and personal
status laws of Egypt and Morocco
London, Graham & Trotman, 1992.

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
Marriage on trial : a study of Islamic family law : Iran and Morocco
compared
London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 1993.

Kusha, Hamid R
The sacred law of Islam : a case study of women's
treatment in the Islamic Republic of Iran's justice system
Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2002.


Useful web-sites on honor killings are:

http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/honorkillings.html

http://womensissues.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site
=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gendercide.org%2Fcase_honour.html

http://www.iwhc.org/uploads/honorcrimesbiblio.pdf

I hope this is of help.

Paul Auchterlonie.


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Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter
Old Library
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter EX4 4PX
U.K.
Tel.: 01392 264051
Fax.: 01392 263871
E-Mail: J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk

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