Islamic feminism

order to combat this oppression, many women are feminists and advocate for women’s rights in order to gain equality to men. Islamic Feminism is a type of feminism which uses the Qur’an and other Islamic sources to try to gain rights for women and end the oppression within the realm of Islam. Islamic Feminism is able to gain more followers than secular feminism in Islamic countries because women who want rights can still follow Islam, but get their rights. But, whether

Although Western feminism started in the 1900s, yet, it didn’t reach the Islamic world until most recently, a couple of hundred years later than the West. Despite the fact that both of the feminism movements come from totally different back grounds, and they are affected by different history and culture, still, both of them aimed for women’s best interests. Muslim women were profoundly feeling aggrieved by the discrimination they have against them. They stereotypical reputation about them in the

The Misconceptions About Women in Islam While people in the west think that women in Islam are oppressed, they do not know that Islam liberated women from oppression. There are many people who have opinions about the religion of Islam, but mostly about the women who follow it. Westerners have this idea that women in Islam are disrespected, mistreated and oppressed. In actuality, these allegations are incorrect. Women in Islam have rights and are not oppressed. The veil is widely misunderstood

1940 is the first professor of Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard University. As an Egyptian-American scholar on Islamic feminism and Islam, Ahmed has published a number of highly informative works addressing the complexities of feminism in Muslim life. Ahmed’s previous works include Women and Gender in Islam. (1993) explores the role women and gender play from the Pre-Islamic Era in the Middle East through to the modern world that we know today. The issue of veiling is an ongoing debate and

The Study of Gender Inequality in Islamic Iran Early in the term I read the book Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi and grew fascinated with her account of life in Iran before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution. In this touching memoir, she describes the 1979 revolutionary takeover of Ayatollah Khomeini, who overthrew the shah and established an Islamic State, fusing together religious and political life. The result was a unique combination of theocratic and democratic authority, completely unprecedented

Feminists and the idea of feminism have both been around since the 18th century and the Age of Enlightenment, a movement that emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism, rather than tradition. Since then, the world has seen three unique waves of feminism. The first wave occurred in the 19th and early 20th centuries; these were the females who fought for women’s suffrage, educational rights, better working conditions, and eliminating gender double standards. This first wave took care of basic

western travelers who brought back stories of their visits to Islamic countries. As this was the seventeenth century, women were not highly regarded, and it was solely male travelers who were able to visit these countries, and recount their stories. As they would travel to the Islamic countries, they had very limited access to Muslim women, and only got to converse with and observe the men, leaving their interpretations of the Islamic society as biased. Therefore, the travelers told their stories

uslim women need feminism? If so, what kind? 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

of women. In places where Islamic extremism exists, the strict fundamentalism affect the rights and societal views of women (Bobic et al., 4-8). Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, tells the story of a Pashtun boy and the consequences of extremism in Afghanistan, such as racism and sexism. Both Hosseini and Satrapi use the historical backdrop of their work to develop the theme of feminism. Both novels include women developing their own personal views of feminism within their patriarchal society

The women’s movement in Iran is well-known as a dynamic, powerful movement within a state under various levels of Islamic regimes. Beginning from the constitutional period from 1905-1911, women began to mobilize and organized acts of defiance such as boycotts, riots, and protests. Despite the numerous odds against them, including not being classified as “citizens” equal under the constitution, women’s movements in Iran grew steadily over the early 1900’s. Women’s organizations produced scholarly