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Religious Law, Local Practice, and Global Debates about Muslim Women’s Rights: The Politics of Consent


  • Columbia University’s Global Center in Amman Jordan (map)

This two-day workshop was the second in a series of conversations and workshops conceived under the rubric Who’s Afraid of Shari’a? by CSSD’s working group on “Liberalism’s Others.” Please see below for conference report.  

Joint Sponsors: Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD), Center for Toleration, Democracy and Religion (CTDR), and Middle East Research Center at Columbia’s Global Center in the Middle East (CUMERC), with support from the Luce Foundation.

conference report

Conference Program