RT Article
T1 The Unearthing of Islamic Feminism in Bosnia and Herzegovina through Fatima Mernissi's Work = La scoperta del femminismo islamico in Bosnia-Erzegovina attraverso l'opera di Fatima Mernissi
JF Annali di studi religiosi
VO 23
SP 163
OP 176
A1 Spahić-Šiljak, Zilka 1968-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1833298136
AB Islamic feminism was barely known before 1990s in the Balkans region and Muslim women started discovering religiously based feminism after the war (1991-1995) when the first books by Fatima Mernissi were translated to Serbian and Bosnian language. Although Muslim women were engaged in public life and politics in Socialist Yugoslavia, the mainstream teachings of Islam repeated the famous hadith: "those who entrust their affairs to a woman will never know prosperity". In the secular sphere, Muslim women could participate in politics, but in religious circles they kept receiving the message that politics is not for women and that their primary role is in the family. The paper discusses how Mernissi's work helped Muslim women unearth Islamic feminism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and disclosed new horizons for the deconstruction of the history of Islam that was shaped and constructed by male scholarship with patriarchal lenses on gender roles.
NO Seite 153-161: Introduction: "Fatima Mernissi in Bosnia: azioni di genere, religiose e politiche nel contesto della Bosnia-Erzegovina? / Fatima Mernissi in Bosnia: Gender, Religion, and Political Agency in the Context of Bosnia Herzegovina?" a cura di  Debora Spini
DO 10.14598/Annali_studi_relig_23202210