Islamists and the incremental Islamisation of Pakistan: the case of women’s rights

Focusing on women's rights, this paper provides a critical socio-legal analysis of Muslim legal pluralism in Pakistan and compares the role and differences of opinions of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) and the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) that were established to Islamise Pakistani society. The paper explains why these two constitutional bodies frequently contradict each other in their understanding of Islamic law by analysing legislation, case law, their membership, declarations and statements of these bodies and their members, reactions from, including criticisms, scholars to the case law and secondary literature on the topic.