Islam, Women and Gender Justice

The Muslim women in India face a host of problems. These women face several problems such as complex problems apart from legal ones. Recently, an all-India seminar was held in Mumbai in which subject experts, scholars and activists from different fields were invited to present their papers and discuss various problems. These papers by scholars and activists of repute in their respective fields have been collected in this volume and edited by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, himself an expert in shari'ah matters and an activist for the cause of the rights of Muslim women.