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[quote]Hyderabad: The first Darul Ifta with women muftis on panel has come into being here. Three women muftis,Muftia Fatimah Aziz, Muftia Syyeda Fatimah and Muftia Rizwana are on the panel. They have been trained in a 2-year Mufti course from Jamiatul Banat in the city.
[url="http://www.islamicvoice.com/october.2003/community.htm#wdi"]first Women Darul Ifta in Hyderabad set up in 2003[/url]

2.It was the Jamiat-ul-Mominath, Lucknow, that first began training muftias, but few of its graduates are practising clerics. The Hyderabad Jamiat, too, came out with its first batch in 2003.

The real change came when many of the 100-odd women’s mosques in Hyderabad opened their doors to muftias about a year ago.

Jamiat director Mufti Mohammed Mastan Ali insists that the muftias — the face of a changing Muslim society — are not rebels. “They don’t revolt against established religious practices and beliefs. We just felt that sermons from women muftis would attract more women, and a fatwa from a muftia on a women’s issue would find greater compliance.”

The 10 new graduates gave their first sermon last Friday, with a packed all-woman mosque at Asifnagar listening to Amina in rapt attention.

“Our muftias have been practising for almost a year. They have rendered critical and useful fatwas for youngsters,” Mastan Ali said.

[url="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060831/asp/nation/story_6680649.asp"]http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060831/asp/nation/story_6680649.asp[/url]
In line with his understanding that there is no rigid distinction between 'religious' and 'secular' knowledge in Islam and that all forms of 'useful' knowledge are Islamically legitimate, the Mufti goes on to argue that Islam allows for women to acquire 'secular' knowledge as well, along with religious education. Here, too, he cites the instances of some noted female companions of the Prophet, presenting them as role models for Muslim women today. Thus, he notes, Hazrat Ayesha taught a woman to write, and several other sahabiyat, too, were literate. Hazrat Khansa was said to excel even men in poetry. Sakina bint Abu Abdullah had a good knowledge of astronomy. Hazrat Umm Salim is said to have crafted a weapon. Numerous Muslim women helped the injured in battles led by the Prophet. Hazrat Ibn Masud's wife was a craftsperson and used her skills to financially support her family. Hazrat Asma bin Mukharama used to sell perfumes. And so on.

[url="http://madrasareforms.blogspot.com/2008/01/muslim-women-ulema-reviving-tradition.html"]http://madrasareforms.blogspot.com/2008/01/muslim-women-ulema-reviving-tradition.html[/url][/quote]

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