TY  - BOOK
AU  - Souaiaia,Ahmed E.
TI  - Contesting justice: women, Islam, law, and society 
SN  - 9780791473979 :
AV  - KBP50 .S68 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Koran
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Polygamy (Islamic law)
KW  - Women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and index; Legal absolutism and ethical relativism -- To know or not to know : the basis of acts -- Cognition through models and paradigms -- The domain of ethics and the law -- Chronology of Islamic thought -- Ethics, morality, and the law -- Determining God's position -- Core and marginal sanctions -- Emotion and law in the Qur®åanic discourse -- Threats, incentives, and piety -- Crime and punishment -- Basis for the practice of polygamy -- On the methodological and historical assumptions -- Methodological and disciplinary precedence -- Polygamy in the historical context -- The philology of polygamy -- Women in Islamic law of inheritance -- The Qur®åanic and interpretive dichotomy -- The legal and exegetical treatment of the verses on inheritance -- Women, justice, and interpretation : the principle of Àwl  -- Explicitness, consensus, and interpretation -- Shares and heirs per blind survey -- Description of data collection -- Explanation and interpretation of data -- Women in modern times -- Discussion: Linking polygamy and inheritance : disadvantaging women by the numbers -- Discussing the status of women -- Other contested perspectives -- Bespoke justice versus tyranny of majoritism -- Inclusion and exclusion of women
ER  -