Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections

This article focuses on contemporary interpretive knowledge projects that engage critically with Islamic religious sciences, and which are driven by the question of gender justice. These projects, which have been loosely termed as Islamic Feminism, are undertaken by Muslim women scholars from differ...

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Published in:Approaching religion
Main Author: Al-Sharmani, Mulki 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2014]
In: Approaching religion
Further subjects:B Women
B Politics and Islam
B Feminism
B Politics and religion
B Islam
B Egypt
B Equality
B Gender
B Qurʼān
B Feminist Theology
B Women in Islam
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Summary:This article focuses on contemporary interpretive knowledge projects that engage critically with Islamic religious sciences, and which are driven by the question of gender justice. These projects, which have been loosely termed as Islamic Feminism, are undertaken by Muslim women scholars from different countries who are committed to their religious faith and who are working towards the production of alternative, gender-sensitive religious knowledge. The paper has three aims: 1) to review the contestations about the definition, categorization, goals, and significance of what has been termed Islamic feminism, 2) to provide an alternative description of these knowledge projects and identify some hermeneutical characteristics that link them and which perhaps could be the basis for delineating them as a new field of knowledge, 3) to map out the trajectory of building new religion-based feminist knowledge in Egypt, shedding light on light on current knowledge projects that can be labelled as Islamic feminism.
ISSN:1799-3121
Contains:Enthalten in: Approaching religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30664/ar.67552