The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam by Fatima Mernissi

The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam



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Page: 240
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780201632217


May 19, 2014 - Certainly, when the wives of the Crusaders saw the respect in which Muslim women were held, they took to wearing the veil in the hope of teaching their own men folks to treat them better…” The most interesting scenario is that, while some feminist and women rights advocates in the western world are criticizing Islam and Muslims for imposing hijab on women, many Muslim women, especially the newly converted ones are so enthusiastic about wearing it. Women's rights advocates, and feminists, such as Moroccan writer and sociologist Fatima Mernissi, her major works such as Beyond the Veil and The Veil and the Male Elite focus specifically on the status of women in Islam and the Arab world. She opens the text with a brief “All debates on democracy get tied up in the woman question and that piece of cloth that opponents of human rights today claim to be the very essence of Muslim identity” (188). Women and Islam و كذلك تمت ترجمته إلى العربية ليظهر تحت العنوان الذى ذكرته أعلاه "الحريم السياسى". Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam by Fatima Mernissi download book. Members of Egypt's minority Coptic. Muslim women are more likely to say that they are religious when the survey enumerator wears a veil. Christian community, on the other 1987. Dec 18, 2011 - of Morokko, Fatima Marnissi narrated the struggle in her books, 'The Veil and the Male elite', ' A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam'; Islam and Democracy and 'Beyond the Veil'. Jan 6, 2008 - The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam و البريطانية تحت عنوان. Moore, Kirsten, Kate Randolph, Nahid Toubia, and Elizabeth Kirberger. Jul 10, 2012 - enumerator as well as her degree of religious observance. Oct 16, 2008 - Fatema Mernissi is a Muslim feminist from Morocco who has written important books on women and Islam. One is The Veil and the Male Elite: A feminist interpretation of women's rights under Islam. Aug 29, 2013 - Fatima Mernissi Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights download. Apr 22, 2011 - Fatima Mernissi's The Veil and the Male Elite was very similar to other books that I have read this semester in that it offered a unique, feminist perspective on the history of Islam and how the past has worked to shape the present. May 2, 2010 - The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Women's Rights In Islam $10.34. Mar 8, 2011 - Saadawi's triumph in Tahrir Square was a wonderful vindication of an entire life given to improving the education, health, and full political rights of girls and women in Egypt. Ever since my teens, when I'd read The Hidden Face of The Veil and the Male Elite by Fatima Mernissi from Morocco and Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed from Egypt, are widely regarded as two modern classics of Muslim feminism.

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