Islamists and Women in the Arab World
Introduction Broadly speaking, contemporary discourse assumes that Islamists are bad for women. Any gain in Islamist political influence is considered a disastrous regression in women’s human rights. At a time when the movement to put women’s rights on the international human rights agenda-a valuab...
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oai:doaj.org-article:3d4b7bc928bd43fda76bf01f20a08a8e2021-12-02T18:18:46ZIslamists and Women in the Arab World10.35632/ajis.v12i1.24032690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/3d4b7bc928bd43fda76bf01f20a08a8e1995-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2403https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Introduction Broadly speaking, contemporary discourse assumes that Islamists are bad for women. Any gain in Islamist political influence is considered a disastrous regression in women’s human rights. At a time when the movement to put women’s rights on the international human rights agenda-a valuable movement indeed-seems on the brink of joining the group of world and regional powers targeting Islamists as the next great threat to humanity, it is urgent that Islamists formulate a strong and just analysis of the gender issue. While the stereotypical view of Islamists, like most stereotypes, has some basis, it is, as are all stereotypes, completely inadequate for understanding the issue. The fact that one can locate a Saudi shaykh, an Egyptian imam, or a young Algerian militiaman who is unmistakably misogynistic does not provide the key to understanding the entire range of Islamist views on gender roles or the implications for women of rising Islamist influence. The indictment of Islamists as oppressive to women emerges from the context of western hegemonic power in the world and deploys the language of women’s liberation to justify political and economic assaults against contemporary Islamist states and political forces. The problem is that women do face oppressive conditions in the Muslim world, as do their counterparts in the West, but these are different from the oppressive conditions imagined and constructed for Muslim women from a western frame of reference ... Najib GhadbianInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 12, Iss 1 (1995) |
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Introduction
Broadly speaking, contemporary discourse assumes that Islamists are
bad for women. Any gain in Islamist political influence is considered a
disastrous regression in women’s human rights. At a time when the movement
to put women’s rights on the international human rights agenda-a
valuable movement indeed-seems on the brink of joining the group of
world and regional powers targeting Islamists as the next great threat to
humanity, it is urgent that Islamists formulate a strong and just analysis
of the gender issue.
While the stereotypical view of Islamists, like most stereotypes, has
some basis, it is, as are all stereotypes, completely inadequate for understanding
the issue. The fact that one can locate a Saudi shaykh, an
Egyptian imam, or a young Algerian militiaman who is unmistakably
misogynistic does not provide the key to understanding the entire range
of Islamist views on gender roles or the implications for women of rising
Islamist influence. The indictment of Islamists as oppressive to women
emerges from the context of western hegemonic power in the world and
deploys the language of women’s liberation to justify political and economic
assaults against contemporary Islamist states and political forces.
The problem is that women do face oppressive conditions in the Muslim
world, as do their counterparts in the West, but these are different from
the oppressive conditions imagined and constructed for Muslim women
from a western frame of reference ...
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