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Wife battery in Islam : socio-legal interpretations in Islamic societies
Ammar, Nawal H.
Ammar, Nawal H.
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There are more than 1.2 billion Muslims living in more than 184 countries and speaking more than 200 languages and dialects.9 Thus discussing Islam as an ideology that has a singular interpretation is impossible and to many social scientists such a discussion represents a simplified view of the intertwined societal forces and structures. Despite the existing diversity among Muslims, most agree that the major sources of Islam are: the Holy Qur’an, the Prophet’s sayings and traditions (hadith and sunnah), and shari’a (jurists’ legal derivations and decisions). The sources of Islam are treated hierarchically; jurists go first to the Qur’an, then to the exegetical works related to the hadith and sunnah, and finally to the shari’a (juridical corpus). This chapter aims to look at the unity of the sources as the basis of understanding the issue of wife beating in Islam.
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2014
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9782940428694
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