This book explores the contentious topic of women s rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian women s movement from 1906 to the present. The work contextualizes the authorial self through the use of personal narrative and interviews. A new critique of Islamic law is produced through an in-depth study of the Iranian Constitution, civil and criminal codes. The work presents a novel reconceptualization of the term "Islamic feminism" by revisiting the arguments of various scholars and through analysis of interviews with Iranian women s rights activists....
This book explores the contentious topic of women s rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian women s move...