PEMBACAAN BARU KONSEP talak: Studi Pemikiran Muhammad Sa'id Al-'Asymāwī

This paper examines the thoughts of a character of contemporary Egyptian named Muhammad Sa‘īd al-‘Asymāwī dropped right on the permissibility of divorce for a wife. If referring to classical Islamic law and the opinion of jurists, dropped right in the hands of an absolute divorce her husband. With the development of the times and the renewal of Islamic legal thought, Muhammad Sa‘īd al-‘Asymāwī trying to deconstruction and reconstructing the laws regarding divorce with a variety of approaches, both the gender approach and equalized spouses in a marriage, an approach by looking asbab-nuzul and other approaches and the social dimension of liberal analogies. This is important, because it has many modern Moslem thinkers who formulate the renewal of marriage in Islamic law and also about divorce, it is done to achieve gender equality in marriage in accordance with the times, including the reinterpretation of the text of Qur’an and hadith family law, whether it is a hadis about marriage, divorce and so on. By understanding the problems above, assuming this study can add to the treasures of Islamic thought on issues that arise in the community khilafiyyah, specially in Indonesia