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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4cc111f3e204e568626003f9326b1e72022-12-21T23:51:48ZengDonner InstituteApproaching Religion1799-31212014-12-014210.30664/ar.67552Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflectionsMulki Al-Sharmani0Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology, Study of Religion UnitThis 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.https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/67552FeminismFeminist theologyWomen in IslamGenderWomenIslam |
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| title | Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections |
| title_full | Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections |
| title_fullStr | Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections |
| title_full_unstemmed | Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections |
| title_short | Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections |
| title_sort | islamic feminism transnational and national reflections |
| topic | Feminism Feminist theology Women in Islam Gender Women Islam |
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