Outlines general rights of women with special emphasis to marriage. Some of the areas covered are marriage proposal, engagement, temporary marriage, modernity, dowry, inheritance, divorce and polygyny.
- The Rights of Women in Islam
- The Author
- Publishers Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Proposal and Engagement
- Does a man’s proposal of marriage insult a woman?
- It is a man’s instinct to make the approach and ask, and a woman’s, instinct to be a source of attraction and act with self-restraint:
- Man seeks union with woman, not to enslave her:
- The custom of asking the hand of woman in marriage is a very safe and wise way of safeguarding the honour and prestige of a woman:
- Errors by the writer of the forty articles in the Civil Law:]
- Part Two: Fixed-Term Marriage
- Contemporary life and fixed-term marriage
- Modern youth, the time of puberty, and the onset of textual activity:
- Monasticism for a fixed period, sexual communism, or fixed-term marriage:
- Experimental marriage
- Russell’s views on fixed-term marriage:
- Fixed-Term marriage 2
- Fixed-Term marriage and the problem of the harem
- Part Three: Woman and Her Social Independence
- Freedom in determining one’s future
- Marrying a woman before she is born
- Exchange of daughters
- The Holy Prophet gave az- Zahra, his daughter full freedom in choosing a husband:
- The Islamic movement in favour of women was entirely independence:
- Permission of fathers:
- A man is a slave of his passions and a woman is a captive of her lovingness:
- Part Four: Islam and Modernity
- The exigencies of the age:
- Islam and the demands of the age:
- Confused thinking:
- What does time itself conform to?
- Adaptation or abrogation?
- Islam and Modernity 2
- Islam and modernity 3
- The secret of the dynamism and flexibility of Islamic law
- Attention to essence and meaning as opposed to shape and form:
- A permanent law for a permanent requirement and a variable law for a varying requirement:
- The question of change of script:
- It does not matter what you wear, as long as you do not imitate slavishly:
- The question of “ahamm wa muhimm” (that which is more important and that which is significant)
- Laws with the right of ‘veto’:
- The governing authority:
- The fundamental of ijtihad:
- Part Five: The Human Status of Woman in the Quran
- The particular philosophy of Islam concerning family rights
- Equality or identicalness
- The status of woman in the world-view of Islam
- Equality, but not Uniformity
- The Declaration of Human Rights is philosophy and not law:
- A glance at the history of women’s rights in Europe
- The dignity and the rights of human beings
- Important points in the preamble to the Declaration of Human Rights
- The dignity and respect of man
- The decline and fall of the human being in western philosophy
- The west is involved in a basic contradiction about man:
- The west has forgotten both itself and its God:
- Part Six: The Natural Basis of Family Rights
- Part Seven: The Differences Between Woman and Man
- Is it a question of symmetry or one of imperfection and perfection?
- Plato’s theory:
- Aristotle against Plato:
- The opinion of the modern world:
- Reciprocal differences:
- The differences between woman and man 2
- The masterpiece of creation:
- Reciprocal differences in the feelings of men and women towards each other:
- The view of a female psychologist
- A hasty movement:
- The view of Will Durant:
- Part Eight: Dowry and Maintenance
- A short history of the dower:
- The dower in the Islamic system of rights:
- A look at history:
- The real philosophy of the dower:
- Dower as in the Qur’an:
- Two kinds of sentiments in animals:
- European love-affairs are more natural than their marriages:
- Dower and Maintenance 2
- Dower and Maintenance 3
- Does modern woman not want a dower or maintenance?
- Is the Declaration of Human Rights an insult to woman?
- Part Nine: The Question of Inheritance
- The cause of woman’s being deprived of inheritance
- Inheritance of an adopted son:
- Inheritance by a confederation:
- Woman as a part of the share of inheritance:
- Woman’s inheritance in the Sassanid period in Iran:
- The share of women in inheritance according to Islam:
- An objection by the worshippers of the west:
- The objection of atheists at the beginning of Islam about inheritance:
- Part Ten: Right of Divorce
- Part Eleven: Polygyny
- Sexual communism
- Plato’s view:
- Several husbands:
- The difficulty with polyandry:
- Polygyny:
- The historical causes of polygyny (1)
- The historical causes of polygyny (2)
- The right of woman in Polygyny
- Is it the nature of man to be polygynous?
- Disadvantages and shortcomings in Polygyny
- Limitations
- Harems
- Other conditions and possibilities:
- Modern Man and Polygyny
