Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran

By (author): "Ziba Mir-Hosseini"
Publish Date: 1999
Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
ISBN1850432694
ISBN139781850432692
AsinIslam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Original titleIslam and Gender
How can justice for women be achieved in an Islamic society? Through a series of lively interviews with clerics in the Iranian religious centre of Qom, Ziba Mir-Hosseini explores the issue of gender with Islamic jurisprudence and examines how clerics today perpetuate and modify these notions.