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Dawrah Fiqh Concerning Women - Manual For A Course on Islam and Gender

Summary:
This book makes available in English the training manual  developed by the Fahmina Institute – an Indonesian pesantren based NGO that supports women empowerment through Islamic teaching. This manual is targeted towards women activists who have no Islamic educational background, with a view to providing them with both theoretical and practical guidance on how to argue for gender equality within Islamic legal thought. The book also details the core elements of a rights-based Islam, which can bring about the much needed paradigm shift in Islamic law and go beyond old jurisprudential dogmas in search of new questions and new answers. It does this by historicizing and contextualizing the discriminatory rulings on women that have become part of Islamic law, showing that they are neither manifestations of divine will nor immutable, but rather that they are juristic constructs that are shaped by, reflect, and can change with time and place.

This book is a powerful training tool for all those who are struggling to give voice to an ethical and egalitarian vision of Islam, which can only be achieved by severing the Islamic ideals and the sacred texts from the patriarchal biases and rulings that have hitherto distorted them. It is only then that Muslims can be freed from taking apologetic and defensive positions.

Dawrah Fiqh Perempuan — Modul Kursus Islam dan Gender
(Dawrah Fiqh Concerning Women - Manual For A Course on Islam and Gender)

Summary:
This book is an Indonesian language training manual  developed by the Fahmina Institute – an Indonesian pesantren based NGO that supports women empowerment through Islamic teaching. This manual is targeted towards women activists who have no Islamic educational background, with a view to providing them with both theoretical and practical guidance on how to argue for gender equality within Islamic legal thought. The book also details the core elements of a rights-based Islam, which can bring about the much needed paradigm shift in Islamic law and go beyond old jurisprudential dogmas in search of new questions and new answers. It does this by historicizing and contextualizing the discriminatory rulings on women that have become part of Islamic law, showing that they are neither manifestations of divine will nor immutable, but rather that they are juristic constructs that are shaped by, reflect, and can change with time and place.

This book is a powerful training tool for all those who are struggling to give voice to an ethical and egalitarian vision of Islam, which can only be achieved by severing the Islamic ideals and the sacred texts from the patriarchal biases and rulings that have hitherto distorted them. It is only then that Muslims can be freed from taking apologetic and defensive positions.

Islam dan Jurnalisme Kemanusiaan: Rekam Jejak Pengembangan Jurnalisme Radio Berbasis Komunitas
(Islam and Humanitarian Journalism: A Step-by-Step Record of the Development of Community-Based Radio Journalism)

This book describes our experiences of journalism, primarily in connection with pesantren (Islamic studies academy) communities and Islamic values, or “Islamicness”, a la pesantren.  This “Islamicness” reaches out to a variety of marginal or minority groups; is firm in its solidarity with the poor, women who are victims of violence, and minorities whose interests are neglected; and emphasizes justice and  mercy for all.

Fiqh Anti-Trafficking - Jawaban Atas Berbagai Kasus Kejahatan Perdagangan Manusia Dalam Perspektif Hukum Islam
(Islamic Jurisprudence Concerning Anti-Trafficking – A response to cases of human trafficking from the perspective of Islam Law).

Fiqh Perempuan -Refleksi Kiai Atas Wacana Agama dan Gender
(Islamic Jurisprudence Concerning Women – Reflections of an Islamic Scholar on the Discourse of Religion and Gender)

Memilih Monogami -Pembacaan Atas Al-Qur'an dan Hadits Nabi
(Choosing Monomgamy – a reading of al-Qur’an and the Hadith)

Bukan Kota Wali -Relasi Rakyat Negara Dalam Kebijakan Pemerintah Kota
(Wali’s City No Longer – State-Citizen Relations in Municipal Government Policy)

Islam Agama Ramah Perempuan - Pembelaan Kiri Pesantren
(Islam is a woman-friendly religion – a defence from a pesantren perspective)

Bergerak Menju Keadilan — Pembelaan Nabi Terhadap Perempuan
(Campaigning for Justice – The Prophet’s Defence of Women)

Spiritualitas Kemanusiaan — Perspektif Islam Pesantren
(Humanist Spirituality – an Islamic Pesantren Perspective)

Nalar Politik Perempuan Pesantren
(The Political Thinking of a Pesantren Woman)