Margot Badran

Feminism in Islam

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Some urban middle- and upper-class women began to contest the Islamic justification for their seclusion, hijab (then meaning the veiling of both face and body), and related controls over their lives.1
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    When Hind Naufal founded the journal al-Fatah (The young woman) in the same year, inaugurating a women’s press in Egypt, women found a new forum for discussing and spreading their nascent feminism.12
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Shaikh Muhammad ‘Abduh, a distinguished teacher and scholar from al-Azhar.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Abduh turned a revolutionary corner when he proposed that believers could go straight to the sources of religion, principally the Qur’an and the Hadith, for guidance in the conduct of everyday life.13
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    However, in Egypt, there has been sufficient space – albeit more frequently taken than granted – within state and society for women to speak out as feminists and activists
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Moreover, the authorities have at times deliberately encouraged women’s initiatives for their own purposes.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    This new awareness (not yet called feminist; in fact, the term “feminism” was not used in Egypt until the early 1920s)
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    In the early nineteenth century, for example, Egyptians did not initially allow their daughters to
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    attend the new state school for hakimas (Ethopian slaves were recruited as the first students)
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    In 1836, Muhammad ‘Ali appointed a Council for Public Education to look into creating a state system of education for girls, but it was found impossible to implement
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