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...
Read More »MSSU Educates Students about the Use of Hijabs
Representatives of the Muslim Student Union at Missouri Southern on Thursday hosted a Hijab Day in the student lounge, wherein they invited other students to try on a hijab and learn more about why those who practice Islam wear the...
Read More »Int’l Federation Permits Iranian Women to Water Ski with Hijab
The International Water ski and Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) has finally allowed Iranian women to attend Asian and international competitions while observing the Islamic dress-code (Hijab)...
Read More »Book: Women and Shari’a Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK
Women and Shari’a Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK is a critique of a paradigm that calls for the introduction of Islamic law in Western legal systems as a means of...
Read More »Difference in Blood Money between Man and a Woman in Islamic Jurisprudence
According to jurisprudential and historical studies, blood money is an economical matter. It has been legislated in order to compensate for the loss incurred by the injured. From another point of view, in an...
Read More »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...
Read More »A Short History of Hijab in heavenly Religions
By studying the history of prior religions, it is clear that the veil was part of other heavenly religions before Islam and the rules were...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »Hijab in Islam is Must and Should be Practiced by All
Quran mandates hijab both for men and women and says to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veil over their breasts and not...
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