Mulki Al-Sharmani

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Mulki Al-Sharmani is Academy of Finland research fellow and lecturer, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, and research coordinator of the Musawah knowledge-building initiative to rethink the notion of male authority in Muslim family laws. Her research interests include Muslim family laws, Islamic feminism, gender, migration and transnationalism. She is the editor of Feminist Activism: Women’s Rights and Legal Reform (ZED Books, forthcoming 2014), and her Egyptian Muslim Family Laws: Legal Reforms and Gender Justice is under consideration for publication.

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Books by Mulki Al-Sharmani

Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage

Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws

By Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger and Sarah Marsso

Many contemporary Muslim family laws rest on patriarchal concepts. The time for change is now.

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Men in Charge?

Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

By Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger

Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, and since the late 19th cent...

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