Keywords
Muslim feminism
political Islam
imperialism
Quran
the Shari’ah
How to Cite
Abstract
A goal of the paper is to present Islamic feminism as a political-intellectual
phenomenon that has been developing in the international Muslim women
community for a few decades. The author distinguishes Islamic feminism (that
postulates gender quality and women’s empowerment on the basis of the religious
principles of Islam) from earlier feminist tradition that she labels after Margot Badran
as Muslim feminism. The paper discusses political and intellectual background of
the emergence of Islamic feminism and shows its complex relationships with both
political Islam and the Western feminist discourses. A key factor here is a heritage
of European colonialism and anti-Muslim politics of the West. The author refers to
the works of main representatives of Islamic feminism, such as Fatima Mernissi,
Amina Wadud, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Asma Barlas, and examines their attempts to
arrive at non-patriarchal reinterpretations of the Muslim tradition, Quranic texts and the established interpretations of the Sharia law.
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