Sexual Violation in Islamic Law
Title | Sexual Violation in Islamic Law PDF eBook |
Author | Hina Azam |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107094240 |
Centered on legal discourses of Islam's first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.
Sexual Violation in Islamic Law
Title | Sexual Violation in Islamic Law PDF eBook |
Author | Hina Azam |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316300412 |
This book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic juristic writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained nuanced, substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. The work centers on legal discourses of the first six centuries of Islam, the period during which these discourses reached their classical forms, and chronicles the juristic conflict over whether or not to provide monetary compensation to victims. Along with tracing the emergence and development of this conflict over time, Hina Azam explains evidentiary ramifications of each of the two competing positions, which are examined through debates between the Ḥanafī and Mālikī schools of law. This study examines several critical themes in Islamic law, such as the relationship between sexuality and property, the tension between divine rights and personal rights in sex crimes, and justifications of victim's rights afforded by the two competing doctrines.
Doubt in Islamic Law
Title | Doubt in Islamic Law PDF eBook |
Author | Intisar A. Rabb |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 431 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107080991 |
This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.
Prey
Title | Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 217 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0062857894 |
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries. In Prey, the best-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. In 2018 Germany, “offences against sexual self-determination” rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate; nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. In Austria in 2017, asylum-seekers were suspects in 11 percent of all reported rapes and sexual harassment cases, despite making up less than 1 percent of the total population. This violence isn’t a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It’s a real problem that Europe—and the world—cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world from institutionalized polygamy to the lack of legal and religious protections for women. A refugee herself, Hirsi Ali is not against immigration. As a child in Somalia, she suffered female genital mutilation; as a young girl in Saudi Arabia, she was made to feel acutely aware of her own vulnerability. Immigration, she argues, requires integration and assimilation. She wants Europeans to reform their broken system—and for Americans to learn from European mistakes. If this doesn’t happen, the calls to exclude new Muslim migrants from Western countries will only grow louder. Deeply researched and featuring fresh and often shocking revelations, Prey uncovers a sexual assault and harassment crisis in Europe that is turning the clock on women’s rights much further back than the #MeToo movement is advancing it.
Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba
Title | Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba PDF eBook |
Author | Camilla Adang |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 826 |
Release | 2012-12-10 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9004243100 |
This volume represents the state of the art in research on the controversial Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain. Remembered mostly for his charming treatise on love, he was first and foremost a fierce polemicist who was much criticized for his idiosyncratic views and his abrasive language. Insisting that the sacred sources of Islam are to be understood in their outward sense and that it is only the Prophet Muḥammad whose example may be followed, Ibn Ḥazm alienated himself from his peers. As a result, his books were burned and he was forced to withdraw from public life. Contributors are: Camilla Adang, Hassan Ansari, Samuel-Martin Behloul, Alfonso Carmona, Leigh Chipman, Maribel Fierro, Alejandro García Sanjuán, Livnat Holtzman, Samir Kaddouri, Joep Lameer, Christian Lange, Gabriel Martinez Gros, Luis Molina, Salvador Peña, Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez, Rafael Ramón Guerrero, Adam Sabra, Sabine Schmidtke, Delfina Serrano, Bruna Soravia, Dominique Urvoy, Kees Versteegh and David Wasserstein.
Abusing Religion
Title | Abusing Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Goodwin |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2020-07-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1978807805 |
Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct? Why does the American public presume to know “what’s really going on” in minority religious communities? Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America’s religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict
Title | Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Jamille Bigio |
Publisher | Council on Foreign Relations |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 087609728X |
Sexual violence in conflict is not simply a gross violation of human rights—it is also a security challenge.