Woman in Islamic  Shari‘ah
        
        
          Foreword
        
        
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          provided all the arguments in its favour. It is only a
        
        
          question now of sufficient number of believers
        
        
          engaging themselves wholeheartedly in the
        
        
          dissemination of those findings for a popular,
        
        
          intellectual revolution to take place. It is my earnest
        
        
          desire that the following chapters should provide
        
        
          the inspiration for this history-making task.
        
        
          Wahiduddin Khan
        
        
          May 19, 1994
        
        
          The Islamic Centre
        
        
          C29, Nizamuddin West
        
        
          New Delhi
        
        
          NOTES
        
        
          1.
        
        
          Edward William Lane,
        
        
          Selections from Kuran
        
        
          (London 1982), p. XC.
        
        
          2.
        
        
          Encyclopaedia Britannica
        
        
          (1984), Vol. 10, p. 733.
        
        
          3.
        
        
          The Times
        
        
          of
        
        
          India,
        
        
          April 6, 1986.