Ijtihad Network Islamic Jurisprudence
This boos will address some of the key questions here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings...
March, 2018
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9 March
A Note on Muslim Women on International Women’s Day
There is much debate to be had, there is much that Muslim women can add to the debate, in their diversity of views and opinions, we don’t want voices from within our diversity to be cherry picked and given a platform as icons when they are not representative...
December, 2017
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13 December
Call for Application: Intensive Course on Gender and Women’s Studies
The Women and Family Research Center Intensive Course endeavors to enhance scholarly attention to Gender and Women’s Studies based on Islamic Shi’a point of view and seeks to offer an original and insightful image of women in...
October, 2017
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30 October
Article: The Shiite Interpretation of the Status of Women
The status of “women” as interpreted by Shiites in a philosophical and legal context, as well as their social status in Shiite communities, throughout history up until today, can only be considered and studied within a general framework, using an approach that must obviously be based on...
July, 2017
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24 July
The Question of Women’s Inheritance
Under the old laws of the world, if inheritance was occasionally given to daughters, it was never given to the daughter’s children, while a son could inherit himself, and his children could grow up as the successor to their father’s property as...
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10 July
Book: The Rights of Women in Islam
The problem of family relations in our age is not so simple and trivial as may be resolved by filling up questionnaires by boys and girls by holding seminars — like the seminars I saw and heard of, and the...
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10 July
The Right of Woman in Polygyny by Martyr Mutahhari
The state of affairs which has always been mainly effective throughout history, due to which polygyny is rendered a woman’s right and the performance of a duty by man, is the comparative excess in the number of women fit to be married as...
March, 2017
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25 March
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant...
May, 2016
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25 May
Conference: Imam Khomeini and the Status of Women
ICE to host Imam Khomeini and the Status of Women conference
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10 May
Woman and Her Social Independence in Islam
In pre-Islamic days the Arabs, as well as non-Arabs, considered fathers to have full authority over their daughters
