The Rights of Women in Islam

Author: Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari

Publisher: W.O.F.I.S. World Organization for Islamic Services

Outlines general rights of women with special emphasis to marriage. Some of the areas covered are marriage proposal, engagement, temporary marriage, modernity, dowry, inheritance, divorce and polygyny.

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Chapters

  1. The Author
  2. Publishers Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Part One: Proposal and Engagement
  6. Part Two: Fixed-Term Marriage
  7. Part Three: Woman and Her Social Independence
  8. Part Four: Islam and Modernity
  9. Part Five: The Human Status of Woman in the Quran
  10. Part Six: The Natural Basis of Family Rights
  11. Part Seven: The Differences Between Woman and Man
  12. Part Eight: Dowry and Maintenance
  13. Part Nine: The Question of Inheritance
  14. Part Ten: Right of Divorce
  15. Part Eleven: Polygyny

First published on al-islam.org.

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