Nashiza Definition:

Muslim law: a disobedient wife.

The mere fact of this term in Muslim law demonstrates the lack of equality of the genders as a wife owes obedience to her husband in such things as her goings and comings form the matrimonial home and the consent to her husband’s requests for sexual intercourse.

Her failure in these and other similar regards makes her subject to being characterized as a nashika and from which she can be even more so deprived of her legal rights, such as a right to spousal support or lodging.

REFERENCES:

  • Amin, S. H., Islamic Law in the Contemporary World (Glascow: Royston Ltd., 1985), page 124

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