Muslim Women Leaders and Legal Reform in Postcolonial Kenya
The post-Cold War conditions created new socio-political spaces in Kenya for new articulations of Muslim women’s public activism and leadership. This essay focuses on two such Muslim women in terms of their leadership responses to issues of Muslim women’s rights in Kenya as framed within a secular p...
| Published in: | Hawwa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Hawwa
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| Further subjects: | B
Muslim women’s rights
secular and Islamic public activism and leadership
female religious authority
shari’a
reform of Kadhi’s Court
Muslim women’s rights and national Constitution
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| Summary: | The post-Cold War conditions created new socio-political spaces in Kenya for new articulations of Muslim women’s public activism and leadership. This essay focuses on two such Muslim women in terms of their leadership responses to issues of Muslim women’s rights in Kenya as framed within a secular paradigm, on the one hand, and within an Islamic one, on the other. In spite of their differences, the essay concludes the efforts of the two leaders complement each other in fundamental ways, especially with regards to their contributions to the national debates on the Shari’a and the reform of the Kadhi’s Court. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2086 |
| Contains: | In: Hawwa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341299 |