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Shariah Adalat and its power over women

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Shariah Adalat and its power over women

MUMBAI, May 07, 2014. Khatoon Shaikh had no formal education, never worked outside the home and lived in the kind of neighborhood that many people might call a slum. A report by Huffington Post traces this story.

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But when Shaikh witnessed her sister-in-law victimized, first at the hands of a violent husband, and again by a patriarchal justice system, she took charge.

Shaikh started her own Shariah adalat, a court based on Islamic law, just for women.

“We needed a place where women’s voices could be heard,” the mother of seven said.

That was 20 years ago. Since then, the court has moved from Shaikh’s home to a two-room office in the north Mumbai neighborhood of Bandra. And it now operates within a broader organization called BMMA, or Indian Muslim Women’s Movement, which Shaikh helped form in 2007.

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