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In a challenge to the traditional view of women in classical Islam as unknown, hidden and passive members of society, research based upon all these sources increasingly demonstrates the crucial role played by gender and gendered attitudes and norms.
Abstract. Gender was a critical factor in the Islamic tradition, especially in its law. That law was shaped by the Qur'an, the practice of Muhammad and his companions as known through hadith, the status of women in Arabia at the rise of Islam, but even more by the customs and attitudes of people living in those regions outside Arabia conquered ...
Muslims and non-Muslims, Islamists and opponents of Islamism, feminists and non-feminists. While Muslims generally argue that there is an ideal gender prototype in Islam, non-Muslims tend to disagree and emphasise that Islam is, in general, hostile to women.1 In this background, this paper attempts to study
19 maj 2020 · Support for feminist mobilization must incorporate the evidence that many Arabs do not view Islam and feminism as contradictory. Emboldening diverse and emancipatory interpretations of Islam may prove very fruitful to boost feminism in the Arab region.
First published in 1992, Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate was part of a wave of books about Middle Eastern and Muslim women and about gender in the Islamic tradition.
Professor Ahmed's Women and Gender in Islam covers the history of women in the Middle East, starting from ancient times before Islam to the present, which at the time was 1992. The book became a classic on the topic of women and to the Islamic tradition and laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the topic.
This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding sch...
