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ISLAMIC FEMINISM
Ali Engineer, Asghar
Ali Engineer, Asghar
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"What is feminism? Nothing but women s movement to empower her and to consider her full human being and not mere second sex as Simon de Bouire called her. Thus we see in western countries until early part of twentieth century she did not enjoy an independent status. It was only after thirties of twentieth century that she won equal status legally and various western countries passed the laws to this effect. Yet patriarchy is looming large on her in these countries. Though Qur an empowered her and gave equal status but Muslims were far from ready to accept gender equality. The Arab culture was too patriarchal to accept equality. Many ahadith were readied to scale down her status and she, in most of the Islamic societies became dependent entity and Qur anic formulations were so interpreted as to make her subordinate to men. One hadith even said that if sajdah (prostration) were permitted before human beings, she would have been asked to prostrate before husband. This is totally contradictory to the Qur an but who cares. It is patriarchy which influences our laws, not Qur an. In fact when it comes to patriarchy it prevails over the Qur an. Either Qur anic formulations were disregarded or so interpreted as to conform them to patriarchy, Now time has come to understand the real spirit of the Qur an. But Islamic world still does not seem to be ready. What is worse due to poverty and ignorance Muslim women themselves are not aware of their Qur anic rights. A campaign has to be launched to make women aware of these rights."(PG 1)
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