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...

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Main Author: Alidou, Ousseina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Hawwa
Year: 2016, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-77
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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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