Zakia Soman
Zakia Soman (Arabic: زكية سومان ) is an activist from India. She is the head of the human rights group Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA).[1] In 2014, she received the Outstanding Women Achievers award from the National Commission for Women.[2]
Life
Soman is from Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. She worked as a university professor.[2]
Work
Soman fights for women to be able to enter religious shrines.[1] She works to reform Islamic divorce customs in India, and to stop the triple talaq practice of divorce in Islam for the 90 million Muslim women in India.[3][2] The BMMA works for women's rights in Islam and recommended changes in India's family law. [4]
In 2013, the BMMA did a survey of 5000 women about women's rights in Islamic families. After that, they trained 30 women as judges to help solve family problems.[5] In the survey, 92 percent of women had agreed to ban the one-sided triple divorce. The Shariah court for women was started because they thought that women were not being heard in the male Shariah court.[6] In the survey, 92 percent of the women were also opposed to multiple wives.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Haji Ali: Mumbai shrine tells court it will allow entry to women (24 October 2016).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Zakia Soman (India) - WikiPeaceWomen – English. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
- ↑ Muslim personal law needs reform, but UCC is not a solution: Zakia Soman.
- ↑ Naaz, Hira. BMMA Co-Founder Zakia Soman On The Need To Reform Muslim Personal Law (6 October 2016).
- ↑ لأول مرة في البلد العلماني.. نساء قاضيات في الهند يحكمن بالشريعة الإسلامية.. فهل تتحقق العدالة على أيديهن؟.[dead link]
- ↑ अल्लाह ने औरत और मर्द में भेदभाव नहीं किया-जाकिया सोमन - The Siasat Daily. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
- ↑ Aziz, Ansar. FikroKhabar - Online Urdu News Portal - آر۔ایس۔ایس ‘بھارتیہ مسلم مہیلا اندولن کے ذریعہ پرسنل لا ء کے خلاف فضا بنانے کی کوشش کررہی ہے ۔ عبدالرحیم قریشی(مزید اہم ترین خبریں ).[dead link]