Women in Muslim Family Law

Esposito, John L.

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“…The mtDNA haplogroups also included more worldwide geographic diversity overall, indicating a different male versus female pattern of intermarriage among these subpopulations (Sandridge et al 2010). Together the Chr Y and mtDNA haplogroups indicate that the Q1 (Bedouin), Q2 (Persian-South Asian), and Q3 (African) ancestry groups represent genetic subpopulations that not only reflect known migration history (HunterZinck et al 2010;Omberg et al 2012) but that also represent units defined by a patrilocal society with strong historical barriers to intermarriage (Esposito 2001;Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman 2003), in which gene flow has been dominated by female movement (i.e., admixture occurring through females marrying into the relatively isolated subpopulations), as well as female influxes from other geographic areas.…”

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Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

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An open question in the history of human migration is the identity of the earliest Eurasian populations that have left contemporary descendants. The Arabian Peninsula was the initial site of the out-of-Africa migrations that occurred between 125,000 and 60,000 yr ago, leading to the hypothesis that the first Eurasian populations were established on the Peninsula and that contemporary indigenous Arabs are direct descendants of these ancient peoples. To assess this hypothesis, we sequenced the entire genomes of 104 unrelated natives of the Arabian Peninsula at high coverage, including 56 of indigenous Arab ancestry. The indigenous Arab genomes defined a cluster distinct from other ancestral groups, and these genomes showed clear hallmarks of an ancient out-of-Africa bottleneck. Similar to other Middle Eastern populations, the indigenous Arabs had higher levels of Neanderthal admixture compared to Africans but had lower levels than Europeans and Asians. These levels of Neanderthal admixture are consistent with an early divergence of Arab ancestors after the out-of-Africa bottleneck but before the major Neanderthal admixture events in Europe and other regions of Eurasia. When compared to worldwide populations sampled in the 1000 Genomes Project, although the indigenous Arabs had a signal of admixture with Europeans, they clustered in a basal, outgroup position to all 1000 Genomes non-Africans when considering pairwise similarity across the entire genome. These results place indigenous Arabs as the most distant relatives of all other contemporary non-Africans and identify these people as direct descendants of the first Eurasian populations established by the out-of-Africa migrations.

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Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

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“…Of the estimated 120,000-150,000 Muslims in Norway, roughly 72,000 are organized in 82 registered congregations that receive financial funding from the government (SSB, 2004(SSB, , 2006. Islam has a well-defined set of religious instructions (The Five Pillars of Islam) that unites all believers, but Islamic faith and practice has undergone historical processes of differentiation that have resulted in a variety of schools of Islamic law and Islamic sects (see Esposito, 1998: 85;1982).…”

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“…Within a complementary gender system, women's formal duties are related to housekeeping and child-rearing, while men's duties are related to providing for the family. This ideal, which is in accordance with classic Islamic family law (see Esposito, 1982), is, however, actively contested by Muslim women who participate in the Norwegian labour market, and also by men who take on duties in the home (Nyhagen Predelli, 2004). One of the strategies used by women to argue for their own active participation outside the home is to invoke the historical tradition of Islam, as women at the time of the Prophet Muhammad were actively engaged in public affairs (Schimmel, 1997: 27).…”

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Religion, Citizenship and Participation

Predelli

2008

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This article analyses the increasing participation of Muslim women in mosques in Norway in light of current discourses on citizenship, gender and migration. It discusses how various processes in the mosques can be interpreted as contradictory and complex by sometimes increasing the participation of women and promoting liberation, while at other times constraining women'ss activities through various forms of discipline and control. Women are vital for the building of religious institutions among Muslim immigrant communities, and they are slowly achieving more space in such institutions. They are also being included in new forms of participation in some mosques. Recently, some Muslim women in Norway have made public calls for the reinterpretation of the Qur'an in ways that are more inclusive towards women. Despite pressures from both within and outside the mosques, however, Muslim congregations in Norway can still be described as patriarchal gender regimes where the participation and citi- zenship of women depends on the willingness of men to include them.

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“…Otherwise, religious laws by no means should be viewed as inherently antiwomen or misogynistic. On the contrary, as many scholars have shown, some religious traditions (for example, Islam), when they were first revealed, significantly advanced women's rights by granting them revolutionary rights and freedoms that had not previously existed in their respective societies (Esposito and DeLong-Bas 2001;Tucker 2008). Moreover, as some suggest, particularly in legally pluralistic settings, religious laws may be more favorable and accessible to women than other legal systems, as they may better fit women's immediate needs and interests.…”

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Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies

Raghavan¹,

Levine²

2012

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Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

Religion, Citizenship and Participation

Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies

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