Hochschulschrift

Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation

Abstract: Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolution from the perspectives of the main currents of Islamic thought, fundamentalists, reformists, and seculars, using a sociological explanation. The disputes about human reason and its relation to revelation can be traced in various Islamic schools of thought since the eighth century AD. However, the disputes have intensified since the eighteenth century when Muslims faced challenges to their faith and social order, brought about by modernity and enlightenment from the West. There were various reactions within the Islamic world. These reflections produced different interpretations of Islam that c

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9783863882983
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 247 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Schlagwort
Islamisches Recht
Frau
Rechtsstellung
Gleichberechtigung
Iran

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Opladen
(wer)
Budrich UniPress Ltd
(wann)
2018
Urheber

DOI
10.3224/86388735
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58764-1
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Hochschulschrift

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  • 2018

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