Shariah Law: The Oppression Of Muslim Women

Historically, “Women and Gender in Islam” discusses the social, political, legal, and religious discourses and structures that have shaped the experience of Muslim women

There are many political, religious, and cultural factors that shape the lives of Islamic women many of them are completely different than factors in the lives of American women. Islam is one of the world’s fastest growing religions; however, Brooks argues that “Islam’s holiest texts have been misused to justify the repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of this once liberating faith.” The book also shows these factors have slowly been taking away women’s rights, rather than furthering them.

The shari’a law has severely affected the way that women are treated. Not only has it affected them in regards to their political, economic, and social rights but it also affects the way they dress and the way they go about getting married.

In order to examine the Islamic religion and how women’s roles have been shaped over time, we must examine the time

When I mention Islam, I am discussing its way of life, a concept that encompasses every aspect of one’s life from beginning to end. Islam, the newest and second largest faith, influences many parts of this earth as we discussed in class. Originating in the Arabian Desert, the religion is based on one book, The Holy Quran, the final word of Allah. Prophet Muhammed, in Islam, was the last messenger of God. His life is one that Muslims should follow, which is called the Sunnah. The Holy Quran, outlines every Muslim s life. This outline, provides guidance from whom to marry to how to mourn a loved one’s death. The Holy Quran dictates a religion based on unsurpassed knowledge, fairness, and

If the husband dies, a part of his property is inherited by his wife / women a combination of the laws of Sharia. If the man did not leave children, permanent women share a quarter of movable and the remaining three quarters are shared by the husband of blood relatives (eg, parents, siblings) . If he had children of one of his wives, his wife / women share one eighth of the property and the rest is for her surviving children and blood relatives. Women share a legacy of some of her late husband's personal property, but they do not share anything from real property such as land, real estate, farm or that value. deferred mahr a woman and outstanding debts of the deceased husband paid before any legacy is applied. Sharia mandates that inheritance

Ever since, feminists have been arguing that Muslim women are being oppressed by their religion and chauvinism present in their countries. However, these traditions that have always been misunderstood as a way to control women’s freedom can be clarified if a person has enough courage to ask them. The hijab, for instance, actually represents their freedom to choose and decide what they want others to see.

The rights of women have been debated in communities around the world for centuries. Many religions have agreed that women deserve to have the basic rights of men, but in the Muslim world, men are allowed to decide which rights, if any, their sisters, daughters, wives, female cousins, and even mothers can express. Islamic men should not have this extreme power over women. Many Muslim feminists, including some men, have tried to stand up to this nonsense and have been murdered for standing up for the rights the Qur’an has given them.

In other verse brings that men have domination on women bodies as they have domination on their lands. "Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will... Qur'an (2:223)"(Yusuf Ali). So in Quran, anyway women are responsible to obey and men can use them as their lands. These mean when Islam claims that human are equal, in other verse and cases they completely reject them and there are many paradoxes in Islam and these mean Islam is not complete religion. A complete religion when mention something, it believes in it but Islam is not like that. These are the reason that Islamic countries are more violent, poor, in fight with each other and the most corrupted counties.

The role of woman, her position and status in society, and her nature have been issues of debate and discussion informed by religion, tradition and culture, misogyny, feminism and - many times - downright ignorance and bigotry.

In this recent centuries, many women around the world were given their rights, and New Zealand was the first country to give that right to women. But before people worried about rights, and this is going back thousand centuries ago, There was a dark time, people were ignorant and believed Superstitions. So they were told having a girl in the family will ruin their status among their people, and she’ll also bring bad luck. Someone will dies, or they’ll be out of money. This kept going for couple of years till Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) was given the Quran. When the Quran came down a lot of laws were changed and some were brought down, and some of the ones that were

In this essay I will be arguing whether Muslim Women need feminism, and if so, what kind? The term feminism is a set of beliefs that recognises the distinction between males and females. Feminism is largely concerned with the idea that females are subordinated or disadvantaged in a system where males are dominated and advantaged. The term Muslim is derived by Islam, which is a belief and practice, and it indicates safety and peace. The different perspective between the western and eastern women, have led the west to create an idea that Muslim women need feminism. As the rights of women in the Middle East have systematically been denied. Many governments control and restrict the civil society.

While the basic beliefs of the Islamic faith may not seem like they would directly oppress women, Islamic law does in fact support the subjugation of women. Known, as Sharia, Muslim law is exactly what it seems, legal codes and regulations based on the Islamic faith. This is because lessons from the Koran and Mohammed’s life

Islam is a religion based on the interpretation and application of fundamental scriptures geared towards the need of a growing, modernizing religious community. The Qur’an and the Prophet Mohammed’s Sunnah and hadith serve as the main sources for attaining religious knowledge. Scholars of Islam, Ulema, delegated a mechanism in which they can gain knowledge after they have consulted the Quran and Sunnah through ijtihad and qiyas. The flexibility with which they can use reason, ijtihad, and analogies, qiyas, to answer questions of the time created doctrines that shed light onto the growing concerns within the Muslim community. This methodology has served to provide a path in which religious scholars can apply Islam to the changing dynamics of gender roles. The modernizing world provided the framework for female scholars to enter the field of religious study and interpret Islam on their own. Drawing on their reasoning and their ability to make analogies to stories within Islam helped women develop sound arguments within Islam that codified women’s rights. Muslim feminist used the religion of Islam as the backbone of their movement by highlighting their rights and freedoms within Islamic scripture. They opened the gates of ijtihad to reevaluate scripture pertaining to their rights in a marriage free from the nuisances of male scholars. Religious tools in extracting knowledge within the folds of Islam allowed women to challenge existing marriage norms and gender roles based in

The first finds it difficult to develop in accordance with the rest and those restrictions are mainly imposed by the religion. It refuses to take into account the importance of what we call modern. Through the history we have witnessed several transitions to modernization and often exactly religion suffer throughout that process, since it is based on constant believes which are hard to convert to a new era. In world full of opportunities, there is gender segregation in some Islamic countries. In Sudan, for example, in public buses women must stand separately in the back. Their existence and everyday living depends on their guardian who accompanies and literally possesses them. The basic rights are taken away and replaced with an interpretation of the divine law that they respect. In Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive because it would expose them to “temptation” and lead to “social chaos”. Meanwhile, in the West emerged the need to create new laws and conventions in order to achieve gender equality. Women were given rights to vote, starting with the Scandinavian countries – Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark (1915), (successors of the first two, apart from Europe – New Zealand (1893) and Australia (1902)). However, we cannot neglect the facts of the past. Islam was the first religion to give a woman the right for inheritance. While Arabic world had strong presence of women in their political life, for example prophet Mohammad’s wife Aisha, in the West they were not influential at