Muslim clerics inwards Tunisia on Th voiced opposition to President Beji Caid Essebsi's excogitation to innovate legislation granting equal inheritance rights to women, reverse to Islamic precepts.
Essebsi has announced the formation of a committee to assay out "individual liberties" together with "equality inwards all domains", including inheritance rights.
As set downward inwards the Koran, the Muslim holy book, daughters inwards the Islamic basis inherit one-half the shares of sons.
Touching about other raw nervus inwards Tunisian political together with religious debate, the secular leader called for the authorities to flake a 1973 round down that prevents Muslim women from marrying non-Muslims.
The proposals sum to "a flagrant vehement of the precepts" of Islam, prayer leaders from across the North African province said inwards a contention issued jointly amongst experts inwards sharia Islamic laws.
"Inheritance inwards Islam is clearly explained inwards the Koran... it tin neither hold upwardly modified nor interpreted," a onetime religious affairs minister, Noureddine Khadmi, told a tidings conference.
A onetime Tunisian mufti, or highest religious leader, Hamda Said, criticised what he termed proposals that would seat an goal to "a 1,400-year consensus".
"It's similar maxim God has been unjust amongst women, something that is completely faux equally at that topographic point are many cases of women inheriting to a greater extent than than men," said Fatma Chakout, a woman mortal lecturer at the Islamic University of Ez-Zitouna.
Sheikh Abdullah el-Oussif, a MD inwards Islamic sciences, said the president's proposals posed a "danger" because they risked dividing lodge inwards post-revolutionary Tunisia at a fourth dimension when the province needed unity.
Tunisia, which adopted a 1956 Personal Status Code extending several rights to women together with abolishing polygamy, is seen equally a pioneer on women's emancipation inwards the Arab world, although tensions oftentimes surface betwixt conservatives together with reformists.
The 2011 revolution inwards Tunisia toppled the regime of autocratic president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali together with sparked uprisings across the Arab world.
AFP