HIST4150 Lecture Notes - Fatema Mernissi, Umm Salama, Quran
11 Mar 2014
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Unveiling muslim history: mernissi"s feminist analysis of the evolution of misogyny in the. The veil and the male elite: a feminist interpretation of women"s right"s in islam by. Moroccan feminist writer fatima mernissi, was written in 1991 as her critique on the current status of women in islam. She explains this gender inequality is only present today because of early misogynistic men interpreting quaranic law so that it fit with their desires better. This misogynistic thinking was absorbed into islamic culture and perpetuated through time up until today. One of the ways mernissi argues islam does not promote male chauvinism is through re- evaluating some of the more misogynistic hadith that are often pulled out in debates on women"s rights. For example, she quotes this al-bukhari-validated hadith several times throughout the book: those who entrust their affairs to a women will never know prosperity! (mernissi 1, 49).
