Debates on the Diya (Blood Money): Contemporary Juristic Discourse and Women’s Rights

Abstract The present study focuses on a fatwa issued in 2005 by Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī. Unlike the predominant opinion of all law schools that the female’s diya is half that of a male’s, al-Qaraḍāwī argues that it is equal to that of a male’s. I claim that the encounter between the Modern-Salafi juristic...

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Main Author: Šaham, Rôn 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Hawwa
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-158
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
XA Law
Further subjects:B female’s diya
B Traditional-Salafi
B Modern-Salafi
B Fatwa
B al-Qaraḍāwī
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