SRS 3315 Lecture 19: Religious Literacy & Muslim Women
30 Mar 2017
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How are your ideas informed: example of religious illiteracy, http://mediamatters. org/video/2014/09/29/on-cnn-reza-aslan-explains-how-the-media- is-fai/ Pre-islamic veiling (setting the context: veiling and seclusion of women (purdah) pre-dates islam, originates in non-arab middle eastern and mediterranean societies, veiling as classist: the first reference of veiling comes from an assyrian legal text from the. 13th century which stipulates that veiling is restricted to honourable women, thus excluding slaves, concubines, and prostitutes. Muslim women movement and de-veiling: the de-veiling movement among upper-class egyptian women questioned not only the ideology of the veil but also the seclusion of women in the name of the veil and islam. Hoodfar (1992: compulsory de-veiling, what was the context, turkey (ataturk, 1923-1938, iran (shah dynasty, 1936-1979) Contemporary iran: the bad, women subjected to fines and punishments for not properly veiling (jilbab chador, muslim women can no longer be judges and excludes women from some fields of study under. My hijab the non-conformist https://www. theguardian. com/commentisfree/video/2015/jun/24/hijab-not- oppression-feminist- statement-video.
