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Author Larsen, Lena

Title How Muftis Think. Manufacturing Fatwas for Muslim Women in Western Europe
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Series Studies in Islamic Law and Society Ser
Studies in Islamic Law and Society Ser
Contents Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Acknowledgements; ‎A Note on Transliteration; ‎Introduction; ‎Muftis and Fatwas in Europe; ‎Three Dimensions of Fatwa; ‎A View of the Islamic Legal Tradition; ‎The Law: Sharia and Fiqh; ‎Islam, Women, Fatwas -- and Gender; ‎Research on Fatwas; ‎History of the Project; ‎The Data; ‎Naṣīḥa; ‎History of the Data and My Experiences as a Researcher; ‎The Structure of This Book; ‎Part 1. Women, Fatwas, Actors; ‎Chapter 1. Continuity and Change: Fatwas and Fatwa-Giving on Women's Issues in Historical Perspective; ‎The Fatwa in Early Islamic History; ‎The Fatwa Literature
‎Fatwas and Women-Related Questions‎Women in Focus -- a Twentieth-Century Trend; ‎Muhammad Abduh as a Mufti; ‎The Salafiyya Movement; ‎Muhammad Rashid Rida; ‎Rida's References; ‎Rida and Women's Issues; ‎Changing Views of the West; ‎Muhammad al-Ghazali; ‎Yusuf al-Qaradawi; ‎Iftāʼ in Europe: The Concerns of the Mufti; ‎Conclusion; ‎Chapter 2. The Muftis and the Fatwa Institutions; ‎Syed Mutawalli Darsh; ‎The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR); ‎Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (UOIF) and Dar al-Fatwa; ‎Barkatullah Abdulkadir; ‎Conclusion; ‎Part 2. The Fatwas
‎Chapter 3. Agony Uncle: The Fatwas of Syed Darsh‎Introduction; ‎Muslim Women's Challenges as Revealed by the Questions; ‎The Women in the Questions; ‎The Fatwas; ‎Within Marriage; ‎Sexuality and Reproduction; ‎Social Relationships; ‎Bodily Care; ‎ʿIbādāt; ‎Characterizing the Fatwas; ‎The Construction of Muslim Women; ‎Chapter 4. Women's Issues and Collective Fatwas: The Case of the ECFR; ‎Introduction; ‎The Questions; ‎The Women in the Questions; ‎The Fatwas; ‎Characterizing the Fatwas; ‎View of Women and Gender Relations; ‎Conclusion; ‎Chapter 5. Fatwa, Legitimacy, and Authority
‎Introduction‎Concerning Haircuts; ‎Women in Mosques; ‎A qarār from the ECFR; ‎Comparison of the Fatwas and the Resolution; ‎Boundaries and the Borderless; ‎Al-mustaftī and the Authority of the Fatwa; ‎Conclusion; ‎Part 3. The Muftis' Reasoning in Local Context; ‎Chapter 6. Fatwas in Context: Muftis and Local Challenges; ‎Introduction; ‎Syed Darsh; ‎Guardianship (wilāya); ‎Polygamy; ‎The ECFR; ‎Larabi Becheri; ‎Barkatullah Abdulkadir and the Marriage Contract; ‎Summary and Conclusions; ‎Chapter 7. Maqasid al-shariʿa and Modern Common Morality; ‎Introduction; ‎Maqāṣid al-sharīʿa
‎Modern Common Morality‎Common Morality and the maqāṣid; ‎Chapter 8. Concluding Reflections; ‎References; ‎Index of Quranic Verses Cited; ‎General Index
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ISBN 9789004367852
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