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- The Author
- Publishers Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Proposal and Engagement
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- Does a man’s proposal of marriage insult a woman?
- It is a man’s instinct to make the approach and ask, and a woman’s, instinct to be a source of attraction and act with self-restraint:
- Man seeks union with woman, not to enslave her:
- The custom of asking the hand of woman in marriage is a very safe and wise way of safeguarding the honour and prestige of a woman:
- Errors by the writer of the forty articles in the Civil Law:]
- Part Two: Fixed-Term Marriage
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- Contemporary life and fixed-term marriage
- Modern youth, the time of puberty, and the onset of textual activity:
- Monasticism for a fixed period, sexual communism, or fixed-term marriage:
- Experimental marriage
- Russell’s views on fixed-term marriage:
- Fixed-Term marriage 2
- Fixed-Term marriage and the problem of the harem
- Part Three: Woman and Her Social Independence
- Freedom in determining one’s future
- Marrying a woman before she is born
- Exchange of daughters
- The Holy Prophet gave az- Zahra, his daughter full freedom in choosing a husband:
- The Islamic movement in favour of women was entirely independence:
- Permission of fathers:
- A man is a slave of his passions and a woman is a captive of her lovingness:
- Part Four: Islam and Modernity
- The exigencies of the age:
- Islam and the demands of the age:
- Confused thinking:
- What does time itself conform to?
- Adaptation or abrogation?
- Islam and Modernity 2
- Islam and modernity 3
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- The secret of the dynamism and flexibility of Islamic law
- Attention to essence and meaning as opposed to shape and form:
- A permanent law for a permanent requirement and a variable law for a varying requirement:
- The question of change of script:
- It does not matter what you wear, as long as you do not imitate slavishly:
- The question of “ahamm wa muhimm” (that which is more important and that which is significant)
- Laws with the right of ‘veto’:
- The governing authority:
- The fundamental of ijtihad:
- Part Five: The Human Status of Woman in the Quran
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- The particular philosophy of Islam concerning family rights
- Equality or identicalness
- The status of woman in the world-view of Islam
- Equality, but not Uniformity
- The Declaration of Human Rights is philosophy and not law:
- A glance at the history of women’s rights in Europe
- The dignity and the rights of human beings
- Important points in the preamble to the Declaration of Human Rights
- The dignity and respect of man
- The decline and fall of the human being in western philosophy
- The west is involved in a basic contradiction about man:
- The west has forgotten both itself and its God:
- Part Six: The Natural Basis of Family Rights
- Part Seven: The Differences Between Woman and Man
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- Is it a question of symmetry or one of imperfection and perfection?
- Plato’s theory:
- Aristotle against Plato:
- The opinion of the modern world:
- Reciprocal differences:
- The differences between woman and man 2
- The masterpiece of creation:
- Reciprocal differences in the feelings of men and women towards each other:
- The view of a female psychologist
- A hasty movement:
- The view of Will Durant:
- Part Eight: Dowry and Maintenance
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- A short history of the dower:
- The dower in the Islamic system of rights:
- A look at history:
- The real philosophy of the dower:
- Dower as in the Qur’an:
- Two kinds of sentiments in animals:
- European love-affairs are more natural than their marriages:
- Dower and Maintenance 2
- Dower and Maintenance 3
- Does modern woman not want a dower or maintenance?
- Is the Declaration of Human Rights an insult to woman?
- Part Nine: The Question of Inheritance
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- The cause of woman’s being deprived of inheritance
- Inheritance of an adopted son:
- Inheritance by a confederation:
- Woman as a part of the share of inheritance:
- Woman’s inheritance in the Sassanid period in Iran:
- The share of women in inheritance according to Islam:
- An objection by the worshippers of the west:
- The objection of atheists at the beginning of Islam about inheritance:
- Part Ten: Right of Divorce
- Part Eleven: Polygyny
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- Sexual communism
- Plato’s view:
- Several husbands:
- The difficulty with polyandry:
- Polygyny:
- The historical causes of polygyny (1)
- The historical causes of polygyny (2)
- The right of woman in Polygyny
- Is it the nature of man to be polygynous?
- Disadvantages and shortcomings in Polygyny
- Limitations
- Harems
- Other conditions and possibilities:
- Modern Man and Polygyny
The Rights of Women in Islam
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Author(s): Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari
Publisher(s): W.O.F.I.S. World Organization for Islamic Services
Category: General Women
Topic Tags: Women Womens Rights marriage
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Outlines general rights of women with special emphasis to marriage. Some of the areas covered are marriage proposal, engagement, temporary marriage, modernity, dowry, inheritance, divorce and polygyny.
Miscellaneous information: nbsp;The Ahlul Bayt DILP team wishes to inform the reader of some important points regarding this digitized text, which represents the English translation of a work originally written in Farsi. Whereas no one can doubt the best intentions of the translator and the publishers in making this title accessible to an English speaking audience, the editing and digitization process of this book (carried out by the DILP Team) has revealed issues in the quality of translation.
Based upon this fact, the DILP team has taken the liberty to make grammatical corrections to make the text more readable and less ambiguous; spelling mistakes and typographical errors have also been corrected and an attempt has been made to improve the highly non-standard use of transliteration of Arabic names and terms. The online text is not an exact reproduction of the original translation.
Users wishing to see the translation as it was published should refer to printed copies available in bookshops. Those who understand are advised to refer directly to the original text.
The Ahlul Bayt DILP Team
The Author
Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari, born 1920, was one of the most versatile Islamic scholars and prolific writers of recent times. He was deeply rooted in
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