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DESCRIPTION:On Dec. 4, 2010 Islam and Authors welcomes Dr. Kecia Ali, author of 
 Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam, in conversation with Jason van Boom. 
 Join us for the onstage conversation, audience Q&A, and book 
 signing.\n\nTickets: $10 general, $5 students.\n\nAbout the Book\n\nToday, 
 family law stands at the center of Muslim identity. Some of its key 
 elements, like divorce (talaq), have come under fire from reformers within 
 and critics outside the community even as other elements of the mutual 
 spousal rights it prescribes are celebrated. This book explores how 
 marriage law came to be formulated the way it was, with jurists drawing 
 ethical inspiration from Qur'an and Sunnah (Prophet's tradition) even as 
 they were deeply influenced by the hierarchical relations, including 
 between masters and slaves, that structured their societies. It considers 
 the ways that jurists reasoned and shows how they tried to respect human 
 dignity and create justice and fairness within marriage. Nonetheless, it 
 concludes that their still-influential answers are inadequate to today's 
 world.\n\n"A remarkable research accomplishment. Ali leads us through three 
 strands of early Islamic jurisprudence with careful attention to the 
 nuances and details of the arguments."\n--Judith Tucker, author of Women, 
 Family, and Gender in Islamic Law\n\nAbout the Author\n\nKecia Ali (Ph.D., 
 Religion, Duke) is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University. 
 She previously held research and teaching fellowships at Harvard Divinity 
 School and Brandeis University. Her research interests center on Islamic 
 religious texts, especially jurisprudence, and women in both historical and 
 contemporary Muslim discourses. She is the author of Sexual Ethics and 
 Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence, which 
 grew out of her work with the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. She is also 
 the co-author (with Oliver Leaman) of Islam: The Key Concepts .\n\n\nAbout 
 the Hosts\n\nS. Reshma Inamdar is Founding Director of SEMAH Inc. a 
 domestic violence prevention organization.  She is also current Chair of 
 the Alameda County Council of the League of Women Voters, a founding member 
 of the Northern California Islamic Council, serves on the Fremont Chief of 
 Police's Community Advisory Committee, and is a member of various 
 interfaith and professional organizations.\n\nJason van Boom is a Bay Area 
 writer and educator. He is Director of Development and Marketing at ICCNC, 
 is a correspondent with ILLUME Magazine, blogs for Tikkun Daily and 
 Huffington Post, and is currently teaching Pacific School of Religion's 
 summer course on Christian history. He is writing his PhD dissertation for 
 Graduate Theological Union's history area.\n\nIslam and Authors 
 Co-Sponsors:\n\nThis Islam and Authors event is co-sponsored by Center for 
 Islamic Studies at Graduate Theological Union, California Institute for 
 Integral Studies (CIIS), Islamic Scholarship Fund, Islamic Networks Group, 
 ILLUME Magazine, Council for American-Islamic Relations- San Francisco Bay 
 Area Chapter, and the UC Berkeley Islamophobia Documentation and Research 
 Project.\n\n \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/29/18665259.php
SUMMARY:Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam: Kecia Ali at Islam and Authors
LOCATION:Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison Street 
 (between 14th and 15th streets), Oakland, CA 94612. Parking available. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/29/18665259.php
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