Syllabus/achievement requirements

Islamic Modernities: Perspectives on Muslim Family Law

Research perspectives and concepts:

• *Agrama, Hussein: Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular State? Comparative Studies in History and Society, 2010, 52: 3, 495-523.
• *Badran, Margot: Between Secular and Islamic Feminism/s: Reflections on the Middle East and Beyond. Journal of Middle East Women¡¯s Studies, 2005, 1:1, 6-28.
• Cuno, Kenneth M. Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Syracuse University Press, 2015.  Introduction, pp. 1-19.
• Mir-Husseini, Vogt, Larsen, Moe (red.): Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Process, London and New York 2013: I.B. Tauris. Chapter one, pp. 7-34. 29 pages
• *Charrad, Mounira M.: Gender in the Middle East: Islam, State, Agency. Annual Review of Sociology, 37, 417-437.

Current situation:

• General perspectives
  • Welchman, Lynn: Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States: A Comparative Overview of Textual Development and Advocacy, Amsterdam University Press, 2007. Chapter 1, pp. 11-19.
• Tunisia
  • *Charrad, Mounira M.; Zarrugh, Amina: Equal or Complementary? Women in the New Tunisian Constitution after the Arab Spring. The Journal of North African Studies, 2014, 19:2, 230-243.
  • **Voorhoeve, Maaike (ed.). Family law in Islam, London 2012: I.B. Tauris. Chapter 8, pp. 199-229.
  • *Voorhoeve, Maaike: Women¡¯s Rights in Tunisia and the Democratic Renegotiation of an Authoritarian Legacy. New Middle Eastern Studies, 2015, 5, 1-17.
• Egypt
  • *Sonneveld, Nadia  and Monika Lindbekk: A Revolution in Muslim Family Law? Egypt¡¯s Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Period (2011-2013) Compared, New Middle Eastern Studies, 2015, 1-20.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Syracuse University Press, 2015.  Chapter 5, pp. 158-185
  • Mir-Husseini, Vogt, Larsen, Moe (red.): Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Process, London and New York 2013: I.B. Tauris. Chapter 2, pp. 37-57.
• Palestine
  • *Shehada, Nahda: Flexibility versus Rigidity in the Practice of Islamic Family Law, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2009, 32: 1, 28- 49.
• Malaysia
  • *Peletz, Michael: A Tale of Two Courts: Judicial transformation and the Rise of A Corporate Islamic Governmentality in Malaysia. American Ethnologist, 2015, 42: 1, 144¨C160.
• Europe
  • Hellum, Sardar Ali, Griffiths (eds.). From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws: Northern European Laws at the Crossroads. Farnham 2011: Ashgate. Chapter 4 and 6, p. 93-117 and 139-165.

Important themes in current debates about gender and Islam:

• Mir-Husseini, Vogt, Larsen, Moe (red.): Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Process, London and New York 2013: I.B. Tauris. Chapter. 3, 4, 5, pp. 57-124.
• **Ellen Anne McLarney, Soft Force: Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening, Princeton University Press, 2015. 219-255.

Claiming history:

• Cuno, Kenneth M. Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Syracuse University Press, 2015., Chapter 3, pp. 77-123
• *Hatem, Mervat F.: The Nineteenth-Century Discursive Roots of the Continuing Debate on the Social-Sexual Contract in Today¡¯s Egypt. Hawwa, 2004, 2:1, 64-88
• *Belhachmi, Zakia: Al-salafiyya, Feminism, and Reforms in the Nineteenth-Century Arab-Islamic Society. The Journal of North African Studies, 2004, 9:4, 63-90.

Source texts:

• Amin, Qasim: The Liberation of Women and The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Transl. by Samiha Sidhom Peterson, The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. 205 pages
• Al-Haddad, Tahir: Muslim Women in Law and Society. Annotated transl. and intro. by Ronak Husni and Daniel L. Newman of al-Tahir al-Haddad's Imra 'tuna fi 'l-sharia wa 'l-mujtama. London and New York 2007: Routledge. 215 pages.

History:

• **Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser (eds.). Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity. Walnut Creek, Calif 2004: Altamira Press. Chapter 1, pp. 21-55.
• Cuno, Kenneth M. Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Syracuse University Press, 2015.  Chapter 4, pp. 123-158.

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