Islamic Law, Women, and the Headlines:
A Commentary
Dr. Quraishi holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School, an LLM from
Columbia Law School, a J.D. from the University of California, and
B.A. from Berkeley. She has served as law clerk in United States federal
courts (for Judge Edward Dean Price, U.S. District Court for Eastern
District of California in 1993), and as the death penalty law clerk for
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals during 1994–1997. Dr. Quraishi
made news in 2001 when she drafted a clemency appeal brief in the case
of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who was sentenced to flogging in Zamfara,
Nigeria. She is an associate of the Muslim Women's League, and has served
as past president and board member of Karamah: Muslim Women for Lawyers
for Human Rights.
Background Information
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University of Wisconsin Law School faculty page
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Asifa Quraishi, a specialist in Islamic law and legal theory,
joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in Fall
2004. Professor Quraishi's expertise ranges from U.S. law on
federal court practice to constitutional legal theory, with a
comparative focus in Islamic law.
At the UW Law School, Quraishi is teaching a combination of
core law school classes in Constitutional Law, and electives in
Islamic law and jurisprudence. ...
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Feminism can’t solve all, Muslim speaker advises
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Stressing open-mindedness, education and humility as requirements
for Western feminists hoping to aid Muslim women, Asifa Quraishi
gave a talk last night entitled “Western Advocacy for Muslim
Women: It’s Not Just the Thought That Counts.” An assistant
professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and
a specialist in Islamic law and legal theory, Quraishi discussed
the potentially harmful effects misguided efforts from Western
feminists can have on the Muslim women they are trying to
help. ...
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Her Honor: An Islamic Critique of the Rape Laws of Pakistan from a Woman-Sensitive Perspective
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This article critiques the rape laws of Pakistan from an
Islamic point of view, which is careful to include women’s
perspectives in its analysis. Unlike much of what is popularly
presented as traditional Islamic law, this woman-affirming Islamic
approach will reveal the inherent gender-egalitarian nature of
Islam, which is too often ignored by its academics, courts,
and legislatures. This article will demonstrate how cultural
patriarchy has instead colored the application of certain Islamic
laws in places like Pakistan, resulting in the very injustice,
which the Qur’an so forcefully condemns. ...
