Women and Values in Islam

Edition:           June 2022

ISBN:              978-984-96731-0-1

PREFACE :

The present book titled: "Women and Values in Islam"is a compilation of three research papers; namely, "Women in Islam", "The Family and Marriage in Transition: The Role of Religious Values" and "Some Observations on the Islamic Conception of Adl (Justice)".

The Italian version of the first paper was published under the title "LA DONNA NELL' ISLAM"in LA DONNA: MEMORIA E ATTULITA, Vol. IV, La donnae nelle altre religioni, Vaticana, 2001. In this paper there has been an attempt to provide a correct and clear picture of the status of women in Islam. The writings of the historians and the verses of the Holy Qur'an state a very miserable condition of women in Pre-Muhammadan Arab. Throughout the paper there has been an endeavour to show that Islam recognizes the position of women to the same status as that of men from material as well as spiritual point of view. Some other issues such as marriage, divorce and dress code etc. of women in Islam have also been carefully dealt with. The main objective of the paper has been to remove some misunderstandings about the status of women in Islam.

The second paper was presented at the 21st International Conference on the Unity of Sciences, Washington D.C. in 1997. The theme of the Conference was "Constructing Theories for a Coming Age of Global Family". In today's world, the family is facing serious crisis. The increased rate of pre-marital relation, illegitimate child birth, living together without marriage, carelessness about parents and children etc., prove that family as an institution has fallen victim of some chronic diseases and its condition is going from bad to worse. The second paper titled "The Family and Marriage in Transition: The Role of Religious Values" is a humble endeavor to show that in order to eradicate this crisis of family, we need to go back to religious values. A civilized world should be modeled and built on a moral order with religious inspirations rather than on technological order with materialistic temptations.