ISLM10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nationstates, Amina Wadud, Sharia
25 Jul 2018
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Women"s rights in islam: women"s attire: supposed gender inequality of islam, france"s ban on face covering, change needs to come from within the religion, man"s guardianship over women: good women are obedient. Influence of the rise of islam as a spiritual and political force in the latter part of the 20th century: 1979 the iranian revolution, cedaw (convention for the elimination of discrimination. Against women): justice and human rights tension with islamic traditional values, seemingly opposed frames of reference machinery. Ratified, particularism: al-tahir al-maddad (1899-1935) asserted that the distinction between essential and contextual rules. Said that marriage should be based on affection, and argued for the policy of gradualism: fazlur rahman (1919-1988) moral principles of the qur"an are distorted. Re-assessment of the qur"an and critical attitude to the scholarship of islam and it"s traditions. Legal reform is only effective when there is a social change.
