This study examines the contradiction in conventional Islamic family law, which grants husbands full authority (qiwāmah and wilāyah), despite the modern reality where millions of Muslim women are breadwinners and leaders. It aims to map the development of Muslim feminist thought globally and within Indonesia, highlighting the unique contributions of each tradition. Utilizing a qualitative research design with a genealogical approach, this study analyzes pivotal intellectual works by major Muslim feminist thinkers from the 1970s to the present. The findings indicate that this intellectual development is neither linear nor imitative of Western frameworks but mutually reinforcing. Global thinkers focus on deconstructing sacred texts using tawḥīd-based egalitarian hermeneutics. Conversely, Indonesian thinkers hybridize global concepts with local customary laws (adat), colonial history, and mainstream Islamic organizations, producing original methodologies like Qirā'ah Mubādalah. Both traditions conclude that qiwāmah and wilāyah are human juristic constructs rather than unchangeable divine mandates. This productive tension between global hermeneutics and local activism provides a robust conceptual foundation for contemporary Islamic family law reform.