This toolkit, which introduces key elements in the Musawah Framework for Action and key messages, is a tool for building knowledge and mobilising for equality in the family.
You may also download the parts of the toolkit most useful to you and your work:
1. Suggestions for Using This Toolkit
2. About Musawah and Key Messages
3. Equality, Justice and the Muslim Family
4. An Inclusive Global Movement
5. Structures and Framework for Action
6. Some Background Papers
7. Facilitator Notes
The toolkit also contains summary pages to academic resources that may be useful to your advocacy:
- TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY: MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS AND THE SHARI’AH
by Ziba Mir-Hosseini - IKHTILAF AL-FUQAHA: DIVERSITY IN FIQH AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
by Muhammad Khalid Masud - ISLAM BEYOND PATRIARCHY THROUGH GENDER INCLUSIVE QUR’ANIC ANALYSIS
by amina wadud - THE GENESIS OF FAMILY LAW: HOW SHARI’AH, CUSTOM AND COLONIAL LAWS INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL STATUS CODES
by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol - FAMILY LAW IN CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM CONTEXTS: TRIGGERS AND STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE
by Cassandra Balchin - WOMEN’S PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT IN THE MUSLIM FAMILY: REALITIES FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
by Kamala Chandrakirana - THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITMENT IN MODERN ISLAM
by Khaled Abou El Fadl - OPENING SPEECH
by Zainah Anwar, Musawah Project Director
Global Meeting for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (2009)