occurrences of the divine feminine in this verse is through the word men the merciful which comes from the root word the womb the islamic feminist discourse operates at 2 levels on the one hand it's a scholarship that critically revisit and pack dominant religious interpretations that are discriminatory against woman on the 2nd hand it also aims to produce new knowledge that makes a case for gender equality but within an islamic ballindine the objective of the communist movement in a spirit is to challenge this battery arc or reading and to bring in woman lances to bring in feminist answers in the way we understand and we approach islamic textual sources. sarah's role at misawa is knowledge building coordinator. in 2009 the n.g.i. began working in kuala lumpur more than 250 activists islamic scholars and lawyers

from 47 countries took part in a call for equality and justice in muslim families. and religious values was central to the appeal of those who believe that islamic feminism is an oxymoron or that islam and feminism are contradictory in fact they need to check their own assumptions when you believe in feminism you can't exclude other woman and other struggles from this collective struggle with a wise you're not true to your feminist ethics. 3 islamic feminists of most especially want to empower a practicing muslim women to help them and cause their rights as mothers wives and citizen. according to islamic tradition men hold sway over women as guardians they decide on education independence work choice of husband.

tunisian fauzia sharf he has been a muslim feminist ever since she was young. she studied physics in paris in the 950 s. . for a long time she taught at the university of tunis one of the few women to do so. she's concerned that women internees and cities are increasingly wearing headscarves again. cool i like think back to that time of birth. i met my father and mother of it. back then the women were all dressed like europeans. in general to my comment i love to share my grandmother also because she didn't always wear headscarves when she was at home she was just herself. if there are just slightly

egyptian women to see and women who've been struggling since the start of the 20th century the difference himself. in $956.00 tunisia gained its independence the 1st president of beeper saw him self as an advocate for women he i should inconsiderable improvements like the prohibition of polygamy divorce laws and the introduction of a minimum age for marriage. girls and women gained access to schools universities and the labor market. in the acme. civic. with independence in 1986 president paul gilbert took the hill on iraq shows that will have gone crazy though he was convinced that women should be emancipated like good

beef and women were supported by their fathers and grandfathers very early on that's how it was with me my father thought that academic success was very important. for us make sure that my educational development was taken as seriously as my brothers or meant it because the more. the bicycle hickman academy of sciences is located on the gulf of tunis 5 fake volumes of books originated here titled the quranic text and its variants up them as she charged for years on the contextualization of the qur'an jewish and christian sources were analyzed including aramaic and syrian literature the latest edition sheds new light on the familiar text only. the qur'an itself as revelation was taxed sit next. to a fixed written text. so the document we have today this

revelation soon you know the work of american. it isn't the revelation itself and. the work we do helps muslims and also nor muslims to do away with literally nothing of a text. you leave the text sitting there it's an approach that usually leads to greater interest in the spirit of the text. rather than in the literal meaning to question that. nearly all of the qur'an 114 suras contain a lot of ambiguity. so we ask question how do we know what we know how do we know if this interpretation is actually an interpretation of what god had in mind how do we know if this is the

source of authority why this male scholars through the centuries had more authority than a woman today living in one context we're understand the stakes for her own experience from a woman's perspective tunisia is the most liberal muslim country in the region even so reforms are needed islamic scholar of her yousef has written extensively on issues like inheritance law polygamy and homosexuality as they relate to the qur'an use of compares the interpretations of male scholars from the middle ages to those of today and critiques their positions because of that she's been threatened by islamists who left her. alone. to a lot of but i don't know. that it is a thought that in. a lot of the. say to her you. know

. yeah. a lot a lot. so. but sure are 20 for the light verse $35.00 plus this 1st goes very much to my heart because it addresses god as light. evoke good do i see this light as the spark of consciousness that encompasses everything people animals and things. and it confirms that god is everything and that there is only one day it can exist. new. no one knows the interpretation blackguardly but the problem isn't ambiguity on the contrary i think these ambiguous readings are an asset they allow the text to open up the public school model problem comes when someone thinks ok this is the meaning

. this is the truth and i'm going to impose it on others the only thing is of the lump or sick. do you read the koran you can't just settle for what other people say you can listen to them ask questions read books in fact you should and sometimes you must but above all you have to take responsibility for your own interpretation . christianity and islam all 3 religions refer to a common patriarch abraham. i believe that there are women who are trying to reconcile their faith with. their own human dignity however they can but personally i believe feminism is either secular or it's not especially if we're talking about the monarch taste

religion's they're very patriarchal all 3 of them i mean women is just. that islamic feminist have found arguments for the equality of man and woman in the qur'an story of creation in syria for verse one god didn't create the woman from the river of the man he created an original soul not saying where he'd attained which is a feminine term in arabic and took muslims from the injustices of their time to do justice of the time it gave women many important right in the part to old post culture of 7th century arabia but at that time the notion of justice didn't include the idea of equality between man and woman because gender equality is a modern concept. how to be learning in a shape or why the psni lair here was merrier while he had me. in their own zenith heard him in

a lonely lies easy lie lee of the rhythm god really though the needle aoa be the. lair in there in email he mostly of. us i chose this new record half of a giving back because i love forgiveness impossible god created forgiveness in my sleep even before he was asked for forgiveness is the one the puddle. doesn't spend much time in france anymore she left the country because of rising islamophobia and now lives in london. and she too sees islam as a source of empowerment for women it's said that mohammed gave dignity back to disenfranchised women. make society in arabia women had the same status as animals or possessions they didn't have the

right to inheritance they were the inheritance the girls were killed at birth then islam came along and said no women must also have the right to inherit that change in women status back then was revolutionary women with no rights who could be killed given away became people with the right to inherit property. put simply sirrah for verse 11 states that a woman should inherit about half of what a man gets. the reason for the un equal treatment is that women didn't usually bear responsibility for providing for their family. so it was taken for granted that men should be allocated the larger share of an inheritance. so this is. the verse says that half the share of inheritance is the guaranteed

minimum for women but there is nothing wrong with giving more than that. these days women work they participate in family life i split expenses with my husband 50 also make more money as they call also i pay my taxes like a man simple like any citizen on. this is it actually justifiable through religion that i only get half. as much as my parents' inheritance. when the qur'an doesn't oppose equality in that situation still force but as it begins knowing. the qur'an and laus men to have up to 4 wives critics of islam claim this is no such any an instrument of male domination.

there are 3 verses that talk about polygamy in the iranians who are out in the set in this what are titled women and you look at the 1st verse it gives you the 1st step solution you can marry $1.00 to $4.00 wives so you can't now marry $10.15 it is restricted then you have a 2nd verse that comes and says you have to treat all of these wives equally so you can't just it's not just a maximum you also have to keep in mind justice and equality but then you have a 3rd verse that comes and these folk various went to versailles it's not actually even if you want to be equal god knows that you can't be male into bitters or actually i guess we'll look at this verse and say the qur'an gave me the right to marry 4 wives but they don't look at the 2 order verses do you treat them equally even if you claim that you do god says that you can't. the the head scarf for women is one of his lungs most controversial requirements

especially in the west 1 that what is the qur'an actually say. and can feminists wear headscarves. well it also takes the fantasy we're here in a french context in an environment that is vehemently opposed to the headscarf i am a rebel a militant feminist it would look i don't want anyone to tell me whether i can wear a headscarf or not. when i'm lucky enough not to be pressured by anyone in my family my family my mother was against me wearing one in senegal but i told her that i had asked for her opinion and you. should want i want to wear one day and not the next i don't care what people think so. so in the name of gender equality we are now denying a muslim woman to control their own bodies to appear in the public space we are punishing them by excluding them from the schools and now there are people who talk

about banning the double so in university we are excluding them from workplaces who are excluding them from nature activities in the minds of right wing movements and french radical secularists they became an obsession. the vast most often used to prescribe for so-called islamic hands graphic to separate. good is a vast that simply says you've been covering can be used by the female. left with 3 in there for. that has nothing to do with a requirement to cover their hand. or do so let them. do little.

inside them and i look at a book and. so the law allows. this is. from the koran actually this is the 1st suitor that prophet mohammed has received and here god is ordering him to read and this shows the importance of leading and how people should learn more every time to become better people in her batik in the omani capital muskat. very see it is what she calls modest fashion that is fashion that embodies islamic values around the world muslim women spend billions on clothing and accessories every year already she is a mother of 3 a successful fashion designer and a devout muslim most of her employees are men islam has always respected women and always treated the woman the right way so i think where i feel so lucky being

a muslim because islam gave me all my rights it's not about being a male or a female it's about if you can earn it if you can work hard to get it. you can say that i'm a superwoman and i can do everything on my own i don't believe that this can happen like for me to have things run properly for me to be a successful interpreter i need the support of my husband because being a mom is very important but there are some days where i'm so busy like today i have a long day of appointments and i woke up this morning my daughter was sick so my husband decided that he will take the day off just making sure that someone is taking care of my daughter and that i can get my important things done. and. this

is going to be my autumn winter collection next year and basically it's inspired by . the patterns of traditional armani dresses like that are by her is something that you see everyone wearing now but it's actually not part of our tradition it's something that came in later on and became so trendy that everyone started wearing it but when you go back to traditional dresses then there are so colorful so for a lot of patterns and completely different than i buy it. since the 1970s saudi arabia and other oil producing states have gained influence in the islamic world guest workers took their experiences back to other muslim nations. meanwhile rich ruling elites systematically invested in

media as well as financing schools and mosques all this led to the exportation of a highly conservative interpretation of islam. the iranian people who overthrew the shah in 1979 partly due to an anti capitalist movement that wanted to end the political and economic influence of the united states. was. left wing liberals and communists including many women played a major role they couldn't foresee how they situation would deteriorate under the islamic regime with its rigid legal system controlled by shiite religious scholars . write. a sequel russia here said the pasha should really really it's not the koran shari'a

is a muslim law is it a collection of regulations that were written let's say 2 centuries after the revelation give us your the. defensible thing about it is the position of women souk like the stoning of women who commit adultery reese that you there's no such thing in the text of the koran story from a dude sick or sentencing someone to death for turning away from the religion was this is that doesn't exist in those terms in the text of the koran zuma sitting piss keeps your kid so today it's very important to explain to people who want to practice islam that there are differences between quranic text and shari'a and if you have also heard riddick school haneke it lashed up yet. perhaps the most controversial passage in the qur'an is sora for 1st 34 does it

really call for men to physically abuse their wives if they rebel. well let her fall on the shores of the no fly zone not quite sure one of the models of what that is when. she tries this is the level of this i chose the verse from the sword or the new subs the women because it symbolizes the superiority of that allah the god of islam grants to man over a women is i'm sorry if i'm. at universities and europe and the united states islamic feminists in particular have questioned the center potations. i don't want to hear about interest you know i think as if i beat her was a silly charge i can read arabic because like most arabs raygun us of the word means bosh this is what islamic scholars talk about the ones who explain the verses page by page in the koran. to say that you should be women some say gently.

but they're still saying. what is this d.n.a. of fire truck in muslim a tradition and we found out that all this is communitarian interpretations could be traced to one verse which is various $434.00 from sort of the new stuff you have the words other people will know which was the word that actually raised most of the controversies and i encourage you to look at the studies and the books that have been books written just about the small words in order to and back its meaning and again if you look at this word traditionally it has been interpreted and translated as being as meaning beating and also used to justify the fact that men could beat their wives when you look at the internal oshie and what this word how this word was used in order instances in the quote and it is used for complete order. to finish and purposes for example it's used when moyes is putting use

a stick you know a day or 2 separate. to see into. the word that is use is and that is it's not it doesn't mean beating this interpretation for example would highlight the fact that this is actually a solution given by god whenever you have a conflict don't act aggressively but instead just separate the bed. put there to provide to delist see imperiled the sick it effectively is out you just don't see a flea as far as the result of good cheer going over so a chill of his own. who can hit it accompanied a notch or 2 not of the ability daughter could that is. in a could you to choose their seduce so hard on us suggests a explain the effect this verse says that the prophet was there to deliver the divine revelation. misson it was not a political leader. god alone is the guardian of all things not the prophet

that includes religion was. going to jews. i think it's a great shame going into days world and a group of muslims although not all of them belong to a so-called political islam see their cattle unfortunately this is spreading them this is an attempt to islam my society as though islam should determine everything from injustice to education to the status of women resort to. religion shouldn't dominate public life list specially bleak that's what i'm fighting against on 2 of jubilee shoe. shine i think that public spaces are there for social interactions. we cannot allow women to be excluded from certain spaces in this day and age exclude this person.

i am across secular activist fiercely because if we don't separate state and religion and our countries we are never going to be a modern civilized were the states never i'm not but just talking about lebanon i'm talking about everywhere you cannot mix religion with. with a with politics hostile that's my hope is that many people aren't afraid of emancipation in the mancipation it doesn't take anything from people it's the opposite it gives so much like joy like new discovery it's the only thing we have to do of course is now and then try to part i would never take him before the game that's my lovelies can't.

tunisia's revolution had a lot to do with emancipation. after the overthrow of the dictator the tunisians adopted a constitution that put women and men on equal footing. women are now allowed to marry non muslims and violence against women is an offense. if you use the resource this virus and i mean that positively is here today today agents talk about homosexuality and islam that they talk about equality in inheritance law and in is long they discussed the relationship between being muslim and being a citizen in a democratic country and try to overcome the division and the problems. but still some say it's impossible to be a muslim or down to specially a muslim woman and modern or that it's impossible to be muslim and to stand for

absolute equality between men and women. in the struggle for an islamic feminism muslim women are rising up and fighting their way towards emancipation with bravery and wisdom. if you look even at the one of the most advanced european european countries very few have 5050 percent representation between men and women and it's appalling i mean like for example when i look at it sometimes. of the leaders of the prime ministers of europe when they're gathered all together and i see just angela merkel and maybe one other woman and then all men say this is europe what's happening this is 2900 and europe what. then are we supposed to do here if that is europe you know

what i mean so you have a lot to do as well don't think that it is over. there sitting in society and in the labor market versity is called the world's gender ethnic background each school orientation held for the military should be the assigning factor in career success. we talked to this human resources director is

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