The Muslim women in India face a host of problems. These women face several
problems such as complex problems apart from legal ones. Recently, an all-India
seminar was held in Mumbai in which subject experts, scholars and activists from
different fields were invited to present their papers and discuss various
problems. These papers by scholars and activists of repute in their respective
fields have been collected in this volume and edited by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer,
himself an expert in shari'ah matters and an activist for the cause of the
rights of Muslim women.