Rethinking Islam with Islamic Feminism النسوية الإسلامية وتحديث الإسلام
نيمت شكر
Islamic
feminism is an attempt to reconcile between Islamic principles and
modern values such as human rights and gender equality. There is no way
to fight against fundamentalism and dogmatism more effectively than
attacking the enemy with its own weapon. At the same time, it hampers
the attempts of the clash-of-civilisations apologists, as it proves that
the Holy Quran accorded rights to women at a time when there was no
Europe or Modern Age. The Prophet Muhammad gave women utmost respect
and, therefore, he should be seen as beacon light while dealing with
matters of gender relations. This is an approach that gives reformist
movement of Islamic feminism an appealing gleam. But the biggest mistake
that reformist thinkers are doing is to perceive political Islam as
traditionalist. The very same political Islam is in fact breaking with
classical scholarship and tradition because it believes that the modern
age demands radical shift of approaches. Salafism also reared its head
as a reformist movement that radically broke with Islamic tradition.
However, it has gone in a direction that we would define it as
anti-modernist and dogmatic movement.
تستخدم
نسويات مسلمات مثل المفكِّرة والكاتبة الإصلاحية والأستاذة الجامعية
الأمريكية أمينة ودود القرآن كأداة فاعلة من أجل الدفاع عن حقوق المرأة
ومواجهة هيمنة النظام الذكوري الأبوي. ولكن بعضهن يقعن للأسف في فخ الفقه
الدفاعي التبريري ويتعرضن لخطر استغلال الإسلام لأسباب سياسية، كما ترى
الباحثة نيمت شكر في هذا التعليق.
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