Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation

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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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9783863882983
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 247 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Islamisches Recht ; Frau ; Rechtsstellung ; Gleichberechtigung ; Iran

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Opladen
• (who): Budrich UniPress Ltd
• (when): 2018
• Creator: Bakhshizadeh, Marziyeh

Further information

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