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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Hawwa
Year: 2016, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-77 |
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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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