About the Book: Islam Gender Justice: Muslims Gender Discrimination
This book is collection of essays written from time to time on common theme of
gender justice in Islam. These essays and articles deal with various problems
like fatwas issued on marriage, divorce, maintenance, custody of children etc
and attempts critique of these fatwas. The author maintains in these essays that
Muslim practices deviate from Quranic pronoucements on gender equality and
womens rights clearly spelt out in Quran. The rights of women in Muslim
societies are mainly determined, not by Quranic pronoucements but by cultural
practices and hence it appears that Islam suppresses womens rights which is not
true.