Ziba Mir-Hosseini

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Ziba Mir-Hosseini

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According to Wikipedia, Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an Iranian-born legal anthropologist, specialising in Islamic law, gender and development. She received her PhD in anthropology from Cambridge University and is the author of several books on Islam, gender, and the family.

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Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism (2006) (228)
"Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies (2001) (140)
Islam and Gender : The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (1999) (140)
Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law (1993) (88)
Marriage on trial : a study of Islamic family law : Iran and Morocco compared (1993) (82)
THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER IN ISLAMIC LEGAL THOUGHT AND STRATEGIES FOR REFORM (2003) (82)
Beyond ‘Islam’ vs ‘Feminism’ (2011) (51)
Islam and democracy in Iran : Eshkevari and the quest for reform (2000) (40)
The Conservative–Reformist Conflict Over Women's Rights in Iran (2002) (30)
Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts (2010) (29)
Marriage on trial : Islamic family law in Iran and Morocco (2000) (27)
The Politics and Hermeneutics of Hijab in Iran: From Confinement to Choice (2007) (27)
Criminalising Sexuality: Zina Laws as Violence Against Women in Muslim Contexts (2011) (26)
Gender and equality in Muslim family law : justice and ethics in the Islamic legal tradition (2013) (26)
Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Sexual Love in Iranian Cinema (2007) (22)
Redefining the truth: Ahl‐i Haqq and the Islamic republic of Iran (1994) (20)
Inner Truth and Outer History: The Two Worlds of the Ahl-i Haqq of Kurdistan (1994) (19)
Towards Gender Equality : Muslim Family Laws and the (2009) (18)
Iranian Cinema: Art, Society and the State (2001) (18)
Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2012) (17)
Women, Marriage and the Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran (1993) (12)
Justice and Equality and Muslim Family Laws: New Ideas, New Prospects (2013) (9)
Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo and the Sixth Majles: A Woman in Her Own Right (2004) (8)
How the Door of Ijtihad Was Opened andClosed: A Comparative Analysis ofRecent Family Law Reforms in Iranand Morocco (2007) (8)
Muslim Legal Tradition and the Challenge of Gender Equality * (2014) (8)
The Construction of Gender in Islamic Legal (2003) (8)
Rethinking gender: Discussions with Ulama in Iran (1998) (7)
Sharia and national law in Iran (2012) (7)
Women in Search of Common Ground: Between Islamic and International Human Rights Law* (2012) (6)
Classical fiqh, contemporary ethics and gender justice (2009) (6)
Breaking the Seal: the New Face of the Ahl-e Haqq (1997) (5)
The Rise and Fall of Fa'ezeh Hashemi: Women in Iranian Elections (2001) (5)
Some aspects of changing marriage in rural Iran: the case of Kalardasht a district in northern provinces. (1989) (4)
Islamic Law and Feminism: The Story of a Relationship (2002) (4)
Changing aspects of economic and family structures in Kalārdasht, a district in Northern Iran, up to 1978 (1980) (4)
Impact of Wage Labour on Household Fission in Rural Iran (1987) (4)
Strategies of Selection: Differing Notions of Marriage in Iran and Morocco (2020) (4)
Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition (2020) (3)
Women’s Equality (2018) (3)
WHEN A WOMAN'S HURT BECOMES AN INJURY: 'HARDSHIP' AS GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE IN IRAN (2007) (3)
Paternity, Patriarchy and Matrifocality in the Shari'a and in Social Practice: The Cases of Morocco and Iran (1992) (3)
David Pinault: The Shiites: ritual and popular piety in a Muslim community. xiii, 209 pp. London: I. B.Tauris, £24.95. (1993) (3)
The Challenges of Islamic Feminism (2019) (3)
Some Aspects of Changing Economy in Rural Iran: The Case of Kalardasht, a District in the Caspian Provinces (1987) (2)
Islam and Democracy in Iran (2000) (2)
Introduction: Muslim Family Law and the Question of Equality (2013) (2)
Islam and democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the quest for reform (2007) (2)
Human Rights and Islamic Legal Tradition: Prospects for an Overlapping Consensus (2016) (2)
Iran's Runaway Girls Challenge the Old Rules (2002) (1)
Feminism and Epistemology (2006) (0)
The Making of Divorce Iranian Style (1999) (0)
Women, Jurisprudence, Islam (2016) (0)
The Politics of Women's Rights in the Contemporary Muslim World (1999) (0)
III. Cultural Citizenship and Gender (2006) (0)
ISLAMISM: ISM OR WASM? (2020) (0)
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Redefining the Truth : Ahli Haqq and the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007) (0)
IMPLEMENTATION AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL OF THE DECISIONS OF THE REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEMS (2011) (0)
Debating Gender with Ulema in Qom (2000) (0)
Islamic law and the question of gender equality (2019) (0)
NICHOLAS AWDE (ed. and tr.): Women in Islam: an anthology from the Qur'ān and hadīths. 224 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. £14.99. (2001) (0)
Philip G. Kreyenbroek: Yazidism: its background, observances and textual tradition . (Texts and Studies in Religion, Vol. 62.) xviii, 349 pp. Lampeter, Dyfed: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. £49.95, $99.95. (1996) (0)
Panel Two: Changing Families, Changing Family Law (2007) (0)
AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent, UK. The AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality is very pleased to be hosting two events at the University of Kent in summer 2006 (2006) (0)
The ‘Secularization’ of Shari‘a in Iran (2010) (0)
Book Reviews : The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa by Barbara Callaway and Lucy Creevy. Boulder & London; Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, 219 pp. £35.50 cloth, £15.95 paper (1994) (0)

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