New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam


	New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam

Johanna_G

11-5-2007 11:03 AM

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badran, feminism, islam, muslima, gender justice

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e5a6062b-b3d4-492e-8de4-d575bfe53147/29564042-F15C-482D-8622-22A74043BD64/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html" href="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.qantara.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html"><B>In her new book, Margot Badran takes a look at how Muslim women scholar-activists in various countries today envision Islam as a mandate for gender justice. Review by Yoginder Sikand </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.qantara.de/img/09F6B706-122A-48A2-9C98-EB60A1C8F449" alt="Cover detail Margot Badran: 'Feminism beyond East and West – New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam' (photo: Global Media Publications)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html">
 The 'status of women in Islam' is a much-debated topic, one on which much has been written, both by critics as well as defenders of Islam. What is missing in most of these writings is the voice of believing Muslim women themselves who are committed to gender justice because they believe that Islam mandates this.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.qantara.de/img/F43542C6-3A11-49DE-91DC-CFB618E9944B" alt="Margot Badran (photo: www.womenstudies.wisc.edu)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html">It is this much-neglected but vital issue that Margot Badran focuses on in this book.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html">In a sense, Badran suggests, this is a revival of early Muslim precedent of the time of the Prophet Muhammad and immediately after him, when numerous women, including some of the Prophet's wives, were considered to be leading religious authorities.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-696/i.html">However, Badran fails to engage fully with the critical question of how these positions on women in Islam have been received by the traditionalist ulema.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/29564042-F15C-482D-8622-22A74043BD64/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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