Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-143) and index
The legal status of women in Islam -- Islam and women's education -- Women and marriage in Islam -- Women and the question of polygamy in Islam -- Female circumcision: religious obligation or cultural deviation? -- Islam and women's inheritance -- The dissolution of marriage in Islam -- Women and political action
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This text explores the cultural and political oppression that Muslim women have been subjected to, and highlights the contrast with what Islam - through the Qur'an and the Sunna - prescribes