Muslim Women's Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India

by Mengia Hong Tschalaer

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women's organisations in northern India. These organisations work to carve out spaces that allow for the articulation of alternative experiences and conceptions of religion and justice that challenge Islamic orthodoxy as well as the monopoly of the Indian state in the domain of family law. While most analyses on reform efforts within Muslim family law in India have focused on women's protection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107155770
• ISBN13: 9781107155770
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"