اسلام اور دیگر الہامی مذاہب میں عورت کی ملکیت کا تقابلی جائزہ
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOMEN’S OWNERSHIP RIGHTS IN ISLAM AND OTHER REVEALED RELIGIONS
Keywords:
Women’s Ownership Rights, Islam and Revealed Religions, Independent Legal Personality, Self-Earning, Bride Gifts & Inheritance, JurisprudencesAbstract
Women’s property rights have remained a very important topic of religious, legal, and socio-economic aspects of every society. This article presents a comparative study of women’s property & rights (ownership) in the Abrahamic & religion (world there most important religion). Judaism, Christianity, Islam. It explains the legal status of women concerning ownership, inheritance, dowery, Meher (on Judaism Ketubah), Christianity, bride price, self-earning trend, financial autonomy, and protection of property rights within these three religions.
The research adopts a historical, comparative, and analytical methodology. Primary sources include Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, Holy Bible, Code of Canon Law, Quran, Hadith, and classical books of Islamic Jurisprudence. Secondary sources include encyclopedias, academic journals, and other authentic books. The study reveals that Judaism has specific women property & right and specific legal context. But they have don’t completely follow the thoughts of Torah and Halakha (Jewish Jurisprudence) because of customary traditionally & law. Christianity accepts the legal dignity of women, but women's property rights has been revealed from Canon’s law and Roman law. So, inheritance bride gift lawful earning was not pure ownership of women.
Therefore, Islamic laws provide a comprehensive legal framework for women's inheritance, Mehr, dowry, self-earning, trade, Job and other financial benefits completely owned of women. So, the got we conclude that all the Abrahamic religions accept property & rights, but Islam gave most comprehensive and legal and authentic framework of women's property rights.
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