Name Ziba Mir-Hosseini Role Anthropologist | Movies Divorce Iranian Style | |
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Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary Books Islam and Democracy in Iran, Islam and Gender: The Relig, Marriage on Trial: A Study of I Similar People Kim Longinotto, Richard Tapper, Zainah Anwar, Amina Wadud, Asma Barlas | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
Part 1 - Dr Ziba Mir Hosseini - Rethinking the Construction of Male Authority in Muslim Family Laws
Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Persian: زیبا_میرحسینی; born April 3, 1952) is an Iranian-born legal anthropologist, specializing in Islamic law, gender and development. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Cambridge University and is the author of several books on Islam, gender, and the family.
Contents
- Part 1 Dr Ziba Mir Hosseini Rethinking the Construction of Male Authority in Muslim Family Laws
- Dr ziba mir hosseini what is islamic feminism
- Biography
- References
She has also directed two documentary films, Runaway and Divorce Iranian Style.
Dr ziba mir hosseini what is islamic feminism
Biography
Born to Iranian parents, Mir-Hosseini is fluent in English, French, and Persian, and is familiar with Arabic and Kurdish. She received her bachelor's degree in Sociology from Tehran University in 1974, and completed her Ph. D. in Social Anthropology in 1980 from the University of Cambridge. Mir-Hosseini's doctoral thesis was written about an ethnographic fieldwork in 1977 in Kalardasht, a tourist district in Iran, about how tourism and a changing economy both impacted traditional Iranian family life, and is titled "Changing Aspects of Economic and Family Structures in Kalardasht, a District of Northern Iran." Mir-Hosseini specializes in Islamic law, gender, and development and is a member of the Council of Women Living under Muslim Laws.
Mir-Hosseini is an expert on Iranian affairs, Islamic family law, and women in the Muslim world. She frequents radio and TV programs all over the world, has been studied on many TV documentaries on Iran, participates in panel discussions and projects in the US, UK and other countries and has published various works.
In 2000, Mir-Hosseini was a jury member of San Francisco International Film Festival and became a jury member for International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. In 2003, Mir-Hosseini became a jury member of Amnesty International DOEN Award for the best film on human rights, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
She has lectured at Barnard College, Stanford University, Al-Maktoum and Princeton University. Her publications include Islam and Gender, Marriage On Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law, Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform, Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts, Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law, Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition, and Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Reform of Muslim Family Laws. Along with these publications, Mir-Hosseini directed with Kim Longinotto two documentaries on current issues in Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001).
In 2015, she received the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion.