Concluding comments

Perhaps more important and positive than the good clauses in the law itself is the fact that the new law was a product of battles and balances between dynamic groups in society. This was the first time that this principle became clear for all to see.

Even after the law was confirmed in the People’s Assembly, pressures continued from different parties for amendments to be made specifically to two articles. The first change resulted from pressure by men for amendment of the article on a woman’s right to travel without the consent of her husband, and the second related to not imprisoning a husband for refusing to pay maintenance. Although one of these was against the interests of women, representing an attack on their freedom, nevertheless the widespread understanding, through direct experience, that it is possible to change the law through such pressure, and that the law itself is neither sacrosanct nor impossible to change opens the possibility for women to organize themselves for advocacy towards new gains.

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Source: Welchman Lynn. Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform. Zed Books,2004. — 328 p.. 2004

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