Islamic Feminisms

"Islam" and "feminism"... Is this an impossible unity in a world where Islam is conceived as a religion of oppression against women? While Islamophobia continues to rise all over the world, can the struggle of religious women who have their share of it be included in feminism? The book compiled by Zahra Ali goes one step further than this discussion and explains how policies - secular or religious - based on the female body actually serve patriarchy. Through the writings of various feminist writers born in different Islamic countries, it deals with the patriarchal tradition that has become intertwined with Islamic jurisprudence over time and has established a male-dominated understanding of Islam that disregards women's rights. At the same time, it responds to the widespread and mistaken belief that feminism is a Western phenomenon.

From Egypt to Iran, from America to Malaysia, researchers, intellectuals and militants throughout the Islamic world are in a feminist movement. What Zahra Ali does in this book is actually to make their voices heard and thus shake the dominant understanding of feminism a little...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 204

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 204

First Printing Year: 2014

Language Turkish