Ziba mir hosseini is a legal anthropologist specializing in islamic law gender and development and a founding member of the musawah global movement for equality and justice in the muslim family she has published books on islamic family law in iran and morocco iranian clerical discourses on gender islamic reformist thinkers and the . Gender and equality in muslim family law over women was a given the verse was understood in this light and the four key terms were used to define relations between spouses in marriage and notions of gender justice and equity as we shall see all revolved around the first part of the. Gender and equality in muslim family law offers a ground breaking analysis of family law based on fieldwork in family courts and illuminated by insights from distinguished clerics and scholars of islam from morocco egypt iran pakistan and indonesia as well as by the experience of human rights and womens rights activists. This book examines how male authority is sustained through law and court practice the consequences for women and the family and the demands made by muslim womens groups examining the construction of male guardianship qiwama wilaya in the islamic tradition it also seeks to create an argument for womens full equality before the law. Gender and equality in muslim family law offers a groundbreaking analysis of family law based on fieldwork in family courts and illuminated by insights from distinguished clerics and scholars of islam from morocco egypt iran pakistan and indonesia as well as by the experience of human rights and women s rights activistsit explores how male authority is sustained through law and court practice in different contexts the consequences for women and the family and the demands made by