Discusses the rights of women in Islam regarding marriage, divorce, property, inheritance, custody of children and the male-female relationship by reference to the religious laws laid down in the Koran. It argues that early Muslim theologians distorted the Islamic perception of women.

This book discusses the rights of women in Islam regarding marriage, divorce, property, inheritance, custody of children and the male-female relationship by reference to the religious laws laid down in the Koran. The author argues that the early Muslim theologians ignored the context within which these rights and obligations were incorporated into Islamic law, in the process distorting the Islamic perception of women as a whole. He goes on to attack notions of female subversiveness and the spurious religious justification that underpins them. Both Muslim feminists and their allies in the women's movement should find this study useful in their struggle for equal rights.

The status of women during Jahiliya
the concept of sexual equality
other aspects of equality of women
marital rights of women in Islam
women and divorce in Islam
Islam and the individual dignity of women
Muslim personal law - the need for change. Appendices: Law of marriage and divorce among Muslims, Christians and Parsis
male-female equality in the Islamic tradition, Professor Riffat Hassan
financial liabilities of Muslim husbands.