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“Contextualizing Muslim Personal Law.” Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India, by Vrinda Narain, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 8–35. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442675179.5.

Personal law in India has become a tool for discrimination. This book explores the concepts of how feminism stems from the discrimination faced by Muslim women in India.

SUNEETHA, A. “Muslim Women and Marriage Laws: Debating the Model Nikahnama.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 47, no. 43, 2012, pp. 40–48. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41720299.

The Nikahnama has become a legal document for marriage in regards to Muslim women. In this book, we see the discussion extending to the rights women possess through marriage in law and how it is performed in application.

Shukla, Shashi, and Sashi Shukla. “POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN.” The Indian Journal of Political Science, vol. 57, no. 1/4, 1996, pp. 1–13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41855734. This journal divulges the correlations between Muslim women being perceived as being of a weaker sex and how that applies to the universally granted right of the democratic voting process.

PATEL, RAZIA. “Indian Muslim Women, Politics of Muslim Personal Law and Struggle for Life with Dignity and Justice.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 44, no. 44, 2009, pp. 44–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25663732.

In Razia Patel's critique of personal law we see the idea of social justice organizations and mass movements becoming a topic of whether they will prevail or merely continue the rhetoric of oppression.

Vatuk, Sylvia. “Islamic Feminism in India: Indian Muslim Women Activists and the Reform of Muslim Personal Law.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 42, no. 2/3, 2008, pp. 489–518. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20488028. This journal goes into detail regarding the 'Islamic feminist' movement in India and how feminism should be perceived by female believers of the Muslim faith and those not of the faith. The perception of feminism is argued to be centralized around the benefits a Muslim believer would get in compliance to their faith.