Dissertations / Theses: 'Feminist islam'

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Taylor, Reed W. "A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?" Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39190.

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In this dissertation, I develop a postcolonial theoretical approach to localized Muslim feminism(s) in Aceh, Indonesia, based on interviews with women in Aceh in 2009 and 2010. One of the central aims of this study is to challenge the dominant exclusivist discourse of â Islamicâ feminism by providing a viable alternative for â Muslimâ feminism(s), derived from collaborative, indigenous, and post-secular politics. I address the need for a religious feminist model of subjectivity that incorporates both the political and ethical dimensions of agency in potentially non-patriarchal and non-state-centric formations. I suggest a communal understanding of religious law as an alternative to conceptualizing religious law (syariah) in terms of a personal ethical code or a system of laws emanating from a state. I propose an alternative discourse of feminist agency and religious identity, one that reaches beyond a secular-liberal epistemology and challenges the hegemonic discourse of state-centrism within a privatized religious identity.
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Saleem, Nighat Parveen. "Muslim women & public space : the debate between conservative and feminist thinkers." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5810/.

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This thesis seeks to resolve the debate between conservative and feminist thinkers over Muslim women’s participation in public space. It is divided into two parts. The first part examines the discourses of both partisans of the debate, taking Abu A ‘lā Mawdudi as representative of conservative thinking and largely Barbara Stowasser as representative of feminist thinking. This examination identifies that the debate rests decisively on conceptualizations of hijab and the pivotal role of the hadiths in informing these but that both conservatives and feminists are selective and literal in their use of hadiths. The second part examines the hadiths in the collections of Bukhari and Muslim in a full and comprehensive manner in their original Arabic text on the topics of women’s mosque attendance, visitation of graves, joining funeral processions, travelling, jihad and veiling. The findings largely uphold feminist positions but seriously challenge conservative conceptualizations of hijab, demonstrating that these are informed as much by cultural factors as by their reading of the hadiths. Above all, they confirm the hypothesis that apparently “restrictive” hadith when read within the context of other hadiths are found to be predicated in considerations other than to maintain gender segregation.

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Usman, Irianti. "Surviving prejudice a feminist ethnography of Muslim women living and studying in Middle Town, Indiana, United States /." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/768.

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Thomas, Lauren. "Postcolonial Possibilities and Contexts: Examining Egyptian Female Involvement in Islamic Movements Outside of a Liberal Feminist Framework." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/837.

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This paper is divided into four chapters. The first one examines the shift in policies from Nasser to Sadat paying close attention to the effects on women. It contextualizes the space in which Islamic movements would come about. The second chapter traces the historical role of women in nationalist projects. It also looks at historical tensions between secular and Islamic women. Then the paper surveys the demographics of Islamic movement and the role of women within four parts of it: the Muslim Brotherhood, the Jama‘at, local mosque communities, and charity work. The third chapter then reviews liberal feminist critique of Islamic female activism. This critique is divided into three sections: tradition v. modernity, patriarchy in Islam, and the veil. The chapter then looks at three problems (universality, lack of context, and positionality) with this critique and briefly looks at the material consequences of such an 4 approach. The fourth chapter gives a background of postcolonialism, applies it to Islamic female activism, and demonstrates why it is crucial to work within a postcolonial framework.

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Piquado, Laura. "Discourse on women's education in Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a convergence of proto-feminist, nationalist and Islamic reformist thought." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30200.

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This thesis explores the development of women's education in pre-independence Egypt from the mid-nineteenth century to 1922. It looks at women's educational facilities and women's access to education through the reigns of Muhammad Ali, Said, Ismail and the British occupation. While the rise in women's educational concerns on a formal level parallels the growth of modernist, Islamic reformist, and proto-feminist thought in the late nineteenth century, the relationship among the three groups vis a vis their respective positions on women's education differs and is therefore examined in the thesis.
Research on this topic reveals a correlation between the early women's movement, a strong proponent of women's education, and Egypt's national and Islamic reform movements. As each group espoused a vision of change for Egypt, one secular and the other decidedly more religious, the common denominator for social progress was the unanimous support for advancements, although conditional, in educational policies regarding women. Couched in a context of modernism, the pursuit of freedom from foreign control and the desire for Egypt to develop into a fully productive society, were indispensable aspects of the development of women's education.

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Galloway, Sonia D. "The Impact of Islam as a Religion and Muslim Women on Gender Equality: A Phenomenological Research Study." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/14.

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The purpose of this study was to examine and explore the meanings, structures and essence of the lived experience of Muslim women via an Islamic theoretical (Kalam) framework. The study's goal was to describe a detailed and comprehensive description of how Muslim women use Islam to promote gender equality and improve treatment within their daily lives. The critical importance of gleaning a better understanding of Islam and the perceived invisibility of Muslim women motivated the researcher to undertake this study. The research study included a qualitative phenomenology research approach. Data were collected from multiple sources: observations, semi-structured individual interviews and transcriptions from participants from various and diverse geographical locations, educational levels, sects, socio-economic backgrounds, and nationalities. Inductive analysis allowed for the emergence of patterns and themes in relation to Muslim women and gender equality within Islam. An Islamic theoretical (Kalam) model provided a conceptual framework for the study, which allowed participants to discuss acquiring and/or achieving gender equality within Islam without separating their religion from their respective traditions and cultures. Thirteen significant themes emerged from the research that helped to illustrate how Muslim women can employ Islam to promote gender equality while improving their lives. The anticipated results of this research study may also be useful in improving gender relations within Islam by serving as a roadmap to resolving conflict between Muslim women and Islamic clerics and scholars.

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Sjödin, Louise. "Nytolkning av sura 4:34 : En undersökning om receptionen av Laleh Balhtiars The Sublime Quran." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3580.

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This study looks at Laleh Bakhtiar´s ambitions when it comes to The Sublime Quran, her English translation of the Quran. It also contains a look at how it was received in English and American media, and how Bakhtiar and her like-minded defend her interpretation and translation against critics, focusing on verse 4:34.

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jaiteh, Mariama. "Seeking Friends With Benefits In A Tourism-Based Sexual Economy: Interrogating The Gambian Sexscape." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3681.

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This dissertation engages with the driving motivations behind the actions of all those involved in The Gambia’s tourism-based sexual economy: the Gambian and other West African male and female sex workers, the Global North (habitually European) male and female tourists, the Gambian and expatriate Lebanese bar and restaurant owners, the Gambian state, and the semesters (members of the Gambian diaspora on vacation in The Gambia). It presents thick ethnographic accounts of interactions with Gambians and tourists, as they form temporary couples or friendships for the duration of tourists’ vacations, and sometimes for longer. This ethnography-rich dissertation pays careful attention to Gambian voices, which have been somewhat marginalized in the limited literature on sex tourism in The Gambia. It theorizes the existence of a Gambian sexscape, within which socio-sexual scripts are performed. The socio-sexual scripts that make the Gambian tourism-based sexual economy are re-located within Gambian society’s larger sexscape, which allows for a better consideration of the wider socio-economic, cultural, and political processes that have led to the formation of contemporary Gambian society. The dissertation briefly outlines The Gambia’s political and economic history, which explains the ongoing economic dependency and the importance of emigration for contemporary Gambian youth who want to escape the abject poverty in which too many live. It proposes a descriptive analysis of the Gambian sexscape and its socio-sexual scripts. Greater precision is given to the socio-sexual scripts that make the tourism-based sexual economy: chanters and white Global North female tourists; Gambian female sex workers and white Global North male tourists; Gambian men who have sex with Gambian men/semesters, and/or with white Global North male tourists. Finally, I adopt a socio-ecological approach to sexual health and examine the tourism-based sexual economy’ s impact on the country’s sexual health.

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Elizarni, FNU. "Gender, Conflict, Peace: The Roles of Feminist Popular Education During and After the Conflict in Aceh, Indonesia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1605018870170842.

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Frazier, Lisa Renae. "Power and Surrender: African American Sunni Women and Embodied Agency." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/15.

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This thesis addresses the lack of scholarly attention devoted to African American Sunni women by examining how they use collective memory to negotiate embodied agency. Through an analysis of African American Sunni women’s narratives of testifying conversion, and vignettes from diaries and interviews, I show how African American Sunni women utilize racial, religious, and spiritual memory in the form of ritual practices and Islamic texts to multiply construct their bodies, and how this construction allows them to enact multimodal and nomadic forms of agency. A contextual analysis also illustrates how environment and interpretation (tafsir) further mobilizes forms of agency, articulating a need for flexibility in regard to the concept of embodied agency and challenging the dichotomy prevalent in Western and Eurocentric conceptions of liberatory agency.

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Torgrimsson, Kristel. "Muslimska feminister : En studie om muslimska feminister i Sverige." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82667.

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Denna studie utgör en motbild till den homogenabild av muslimska kvinnors politiska engagemang som görs i både politiska och akademiska kretsar. Man talar ofta om ’den muslimska kvinnans’motgångar och problem, i förhållande till större strukturella fenomen så som islamofobi och rasism, men tar inte hänsyn till den mångfald som präglar gruppen muslimska kvinnor. Istället för att ge utrymme för muslimska kvinnor att tala om interna och externa problem, utgörsig politiska och mediala aktörer till deras representanter, någonting som denna studie argumenterar för, reproducerar en slags normativ vithet. Denna normativa vithet skapar en luckai den svenska debattenoch en blindhet inför muslimska kvinnors egna engagemangochleder ytterligare till ett exkluderande och ensidigt samtal om kvinnors rättigheter. Denna kritiska diskursanalys om muslimska feminister i Sverige avser därför att visa den heterogenitet som formar deras politiska intressen och de olika motgångar som var och en möter i förhållande till den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter.

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LeCompte, Kacie Sherry. "The Female Voices of Islam." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/8.

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The Female Voices of Islam is arguing for feminism to be regarded as a theory instead of an ideology so that the voices of contemporary female Muslims can be heard. This paper reviews the arguments of four such women: Amina Wadud, Fatima Mernissi, Asra Q. Nomani, and finally Zainab al-Ghazali. Collectively their discourses support equality for men and women within the Islamic tradition, while their individual ways of approaching the subject differ dramatically. Wadud and Nomani support the theory that an egalitarian ethic can be found in the roots of the Islamic tradition, in both text and ritual. Mernissi investigates how economic evolution of Islamic society stimulates a shift in spatial boundaries for Muslim women. Al-Ghazali does not address female inequality within the tradition, but advocates an egalitarian ethic through the example she sets in Egyptian society. She is concerned with a world wide observance of “true” Islam.

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Scott, Jennifer Lee. "An Islamic feminism? competing understandings of womens rights in Morocco." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5430.

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Essberg, Ida-Mari, and Kevin Carlberg. "Normbrytare inom islam : Svenska mediers skildring av skapandet av ett liberalt islam, baserat på tre normbrytare ur ett västerländskt perspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26872.

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Islam framställs ofta som en negativ och våldsam religion på sociala medier och i massmedier. Medierapporteringen kring islam är generellt stor, men material om normbrytare brister i relation till den stora mängd artiklar. Vilket gör att de försvinner i mängden. Syftet är att redogöra för hur medierapporteringen i dagstidningar ser ut gällande islamiska normbrytare. En kvalitativ studie med en kritisk diskursanalys med inslag av en feministisk teoribildning har använts. Islam framställs som en splittrad religion med förtryck mellan muslimerna. Det är tydligt att Koranen kan tolkas både på ett traditionellt sätt och på ett modernt sätt. Normbrytarna arbetar med moderna tolkningar av Koranen. Artiklarna är överlag skrivna på ett positivt sätt. Normbrytarna är utvalda för att de arbetar med ett reformarbete för att islam ska bli accepterad i västvärlden som något annat än en terror-religion. Sätten de arbetar på skiljer sig åt, men har ändå likheter. Sherin Khankan och Mariammoskén lyfter kvinnliga imamer och kvinnans rätt i samhället genom att bland annat skapa ett äktenskapskontrakt och bevilja muslimska skilsmässor. Seyran Ates och Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-moskén jobbar för att skapa en liberal plats där kvinnor och män är jämlikar samtidigt som hon är en känd aktivist när det kommer till kvinnliga rättigheter. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed jobbar för att skapa en plats där män och kvinnor kan be tillsammans, oavsett om de är homosexuella eller heterosexuella. När det kommer till artiklarna är den genomgående diskursen att arbeta mot den traditionella tolkningen av islam. Detta för ett islam där fler ska kunna känna sig välkomna. Det finns flertalet tydliga diskurser. Dessa handlar främst om att arbeta för jämlikhet, rättigheter och allas rätt att vara den de är och tro på vad de vill. Det ord som framstår som den tydligaste diskursen är fredlig vilket förekommer i flera av artiklarna.

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Shannon, Kelly J. "Veiled Intentions: Islam, Global Feminism, and U.S. Foreign Policy Since the Late 1970s." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/99441.

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This dissertation explores the ways in which Americans constructed a public understanding about gender relations in Muslim countries from the Iranian Revolution through the post-9/11 period that cast Muslims as oppressors of women. It argues that such understandings significantly influenced U.S. foreign policy in recent decades. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the degree to which women had or lacked rights became one barometer by which Americans judged Muslim societies. Journalists, scholars, women's rights activists, novelists, filmmakers, politicians, and others in the U.S. contributed to public debates since 1979 that cast Muslims as particularly oppressive of women. The pervasiveness of such views and lobbying efforts by women's rights activists pushed policymakers to situate the attainment of rights for women within the constellation of legitimate areas of policy concern regarding the Muslim world. As a consequence, by the 1990s concern for Muslim women's rights sometimes drove U.S. policy, as when President Clinton chose not to recognize the Taliban regime in 1998; at other times, rhetoric about the oppression of Muslim women became a political tool which policymakers could use to provide legitimacy and moral force for their interventions in the Islamic world. This story is both national and transnational and involves both state and non-state actors.
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Wade, Chris A. "Muslim women and women's organizations allies in the war of ideas." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Dec%5FWade.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.
Thesis Advisor(s): Robinson, Glenn E. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-88). Also available in print.

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Kainz, Maria. "Kvinnor som leder khutbah : En komparativ studie av kvinnliga imamer i västerländsk och muslimsk kontext." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14010.

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Kvinnor som leder khutbah Uppsatsen bygger på tre primära frågor varav den ena är vad Koranen säger om kvinnans ställning inom islam, den andra vad som krävs av en kvinna för att leda bön och den tredje om det skiljer sig att vara kvinna i en västerländsk kontext från att vara kvinna i en muslimsk kontext för att kunna erhålla rollen som böneledare. De kvinnliga muslimska feministerna, som redovisas i uppsatsen, är västerländska konvertiter med en hög akademisk västerländsk utbildning inom islam. De muslimska indonesiska feministerna har även de inhemsk akademisk utbildning. Uppfattningen från dessa kvinnor är att västerländsk feminism är ett fenomen som ställer sig mot män och där den pekar ut män som roten till att alla kvinnor lider. Västerländsk feminism sägs vara ett verktyg från väst för att förinta islam. För de muslimska kvinnorna som försöker ta en ledande roll gäller det att använda en retorik byggd på Koranen och att påvisa jämställdhet inför Gud och inte ställa sig mot männen. Uppsatsen bygger på ett reduktionistiskt förhållningssätt där strukturella hinder diskuteras och vad dessa hinder kan bero på i ett muslimskt perspektiv. Det finns ett fåtal kvinnor i världen som lett fredagsbönen, som är den centrala bönen för alla muslimer, där sociala och politiska frågor predikas. Uppsatsen visar på att det finns tre framträdande framgångsfaktorer för de kvinnor som hittills lett khutbah. För det första måste de ha en gedigen kunskap om Koranen, sharia och haditherna. För det andra måste det finnas en lagstiftning som trycker på jämställdhet i de länder de kvinnliga böneledarna vill verka i och för det tredje måste de kvinnliga imamerna ha stöd av progressiva män som för fram dem som ledare.

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Folly, Rebecca P. F. "The subjective experiences of Muslim women in family-related migration to Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6273.

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Muslim family members constitute a significant migration flow to the UK (Kofman et al., 2013). Despite such observations, this form of mobility is under-explored in geographic scholarship on migration. Accordingly, this thesis examines the subjective experiences of migration of a small group of Muslim women, who migrated either with or to join their families in Scotland. Participant observation, focus groups and the life narratives of eight women are used to gain an in-depth understanding of both the reasons for and the consequences of migration for this group of Muslim women. In addition, this thesis examines the role of a secular community-based organisation in supporting migrants in their everyday lives. Drawing on conceptual approaches to migration, this study reveals diverse and complex motivations among participants in “choosing” to migrate. Far from “victims” or “trailing wives”, participants privileged their children's needs but also the possibility to transform their sense of self through migration. The study draws attention to the struggles of daily life in Scotland where, bereft of extended family, the synchronisation of migration with childbirth resulted in some participants enduring years of isolation. Such struggles resulted in changes in the home, with husbands providing both physical and emotional support. The experience of migration affected the women's religious identities, providing solace as well as a way to assert belonging in Scotland by drawing on Islamic theology. The community-based organisation provided a “safe space”, bridging the secular and non-secular and offering women the chance to socialise, learn and volunteer. The study shows that volunteering provided not only a way into paid work but also shaped women's subjectivities and home lives. However, the re-direction of national government funding towards “Muslim problems” threatens to undermine the organisation's ability to continue to meet the local needs of Muslim migrant women.

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Marvel, Elizabeth Paulson. "Ottoman Feminism and Republican Reform: Fatma Aliye's Nisvân-ı İslâm." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307989970.

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Malmberg, Erik. "Feminismens skilda erfarenheter : Problematiken att kombinera islam och feminism för muslimska kvinnor i Sverige." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-130452.

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Till följd av att en muslimsk kvinna misshandlades i en förort till Stockholm på grund av att hon bar slöja, genomfördes den politiska manifestationen Hijabuppropet. Denna manifestation resulterade i att kvinnor uppmanades att beslöja sig i syfte att visa solidaritet för den misshandlade kvinnan, och muslimska kvinnor som en marginaliserad samhällsgrupp. Agerandet möttes med en stark kritik från bland annat den svenska kvinnorörelsen som menade att slöjan är anti-feministisk och representerar ett kvinnoförtryck som inte borde normaliseras i det svenska samhället. Detta fick gensavar från muslimska feminister som menade att deras erfarenheter blev exkluderade i debatten kring kvinnlig jämställdhet. Syftet för denna studie är att utifrån den teoretiska referensramen black feminism och postkolonial feminism problematisera denna påstådda exkludering, och att anlysera hur dessa kvinnor motiverar en lyckad kombination av att vara muslim och feminist i ett västerländskt samhälle. Med totalt 13 debattartiklar, krönikor och intervjuartiklar med muslimska kvinnliga feminister och andra icke-muslimska feministiska aktörer, har en kritisk diskursanalys genomförts. Med hjälp av Faircloughs tredimensionella analysverktyg har diskursiva praktiker tolkats och kopplats till skapandet av sociala praktiker. Studien förhåller sig till vetenskapstraditionen kritisk realism då fokus ligger på att finna bakomliggande mekanismer som har förklaringsvärde till de sociala fenomen som undersöks. Analysen visar ett resultat där jämställdhetsdiskursen tolkas definieras av en hierarkisk social dominans, där den svenska kvinnorörelsen reproducerar en normativ feminism designad efter den vita medelklasskvinnans behov. Bedömningen görs att det existerar en exkludering av marginaliserade grupper inom kvinnorörelsen där minoriteten antas behöva anamma majoritetsgruppens värderingar vad gäller attityder till kvinnliga rättigheter och definition av frihet. Det existerar med andra ord en invärtes maktkamp inom den svenska feministiska rörelsen där idén om en universell feminism där samhällets samtliga kvinnor strävar efter unisona mål är problematisk.

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Broti, Mônica Peralli. "O encontro entre o feminino brasileiro e o Islam: caminhos e desencontros." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2018. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/3510.

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This paper proposes a study on the dynamics of the post-modernism age analyzing the relevance of this historical period with a reference to the articulation of individuality, action and the later results in people’s lifes. This analysis assumes a discussion about contemporaneity and its interconnection with the Brazilian women’s who plans living in the traditional Islamic Community as they adopt a religious identity and a new interpretation to life. Therefore, our master’s thesis hypothesis was to analyze the influence brought by the post-modernity transformation on the personal field. The Brazilian Muslim women had a distinction with the protagonists because of the reassess with the cultural and ocidental heritage and to express the will to the religious conversion to Islam, changing their behaviour, their religion and their life. Therefore, what we did, firstly, in the course of the three chapters, was to approach the post-modernity and its interference in the personal aspect of the person. The second concern was centered in the conception of religion and the Islamic faith comprehension. Finally, we wanted to understand the women’s motivations to the religious conversion and recognize the new cultural and existential meaning in order to understand the being Muslim.
Este trabalho propõe um estudo sobre a dinâmica da era pós-moderna, com o objetivo de analisar a relevância desse período histórico na articulação dos referenciais de ação do indivíduo e o posterior reflexo desse momento nas escolhas de vida do sujeito. Essa análise pressupõe uma discussão sobre a contemporaneidade em sua interconexão com o planejamento de vida das mulheres brasileiras, que optaram pelo convívio em comunidades tradicionais islâmicas, adotando uma identidade religiosa e uma nova reinterpretação à vida. Deste modo, a proposta de dissertação foi analisar a influência das transformações introduzidas pela pós-modernidade sobre as esferas da vida pessoal. As mulheres brasileiras muçulmanas tiveram destaque como protagonistas por reavaliarem a herança cultural ocidental e manifestarem o desejo à conversão ao Islam, com o propósito de mudar de comportamento, a mudar de religião e a mudar de vida. Sendo assim, o que fizemos, primeiramente, no decorrer dos três capítulos que compõem o trabalho, foi abordar a pós-modernidade e as suas interferências aos aspectos mais pessoais do indivíduo. A segunda preocupação ficou centrada na compreensão das concepções da religião e da fé Islâmica. E, por último, reconhecer os novos significados culturais e existências para entender o ser muçulmana.

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Davidsson, Angelika. "Makt och kön i kristendomen och islam." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-527.

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Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att belysa att mäns maktmissbruk över kvinnor inte beror på religion eller nationalitet, utan är ett mer personligt och psykologiskt betingat beteende. Men i vissa fall kan vissa religiösa påbud och vissa kulturella heteronoma värderingar bidra till att underbygga ett sådant maktmissbruk, för den som väljer att se på saken och tolka påbud och värderingar på ett sätt som gynnar dem i dessa avseenden. I vissa fall är männen kanske även mer eller mindre psykiskt sjuka och i behov av professionell hjälp.

Jag har kommit i kontakt med en del obehaglig information när jag letade information till den här uppsatsen. En del av den informationen har jag valt att sålla bort och en del har jag valt att behålla. Eftersom mitt val av ämne är både känsligt och obehagligt har det gjort att jag övervägt att byta ämne ett flertal gånger. Nu när uppsatsen är skriven vet jag fortfarande inte om det var rätt val eller inte.

Mina perspektiv på maktmissbruk har förändrats, sen innan jag började att skriva den här uppsatsen. Insikten om vad härskartekniker innebär tror jag är en värdefull kunskap, även om den inte tar sig så extrema uttryck som jag har belyst i den här uppsatsen, eftersom de kan användas nästan när som helst och var som helst.

Jag har tagit upp ett vanligt sätt att se på historien inom feminism och gynocentrisk feminism, samlat citat ur bibeln och koranen som är tolkningsbara i den här kontexten, refererat böcker som är skrivna i den här kontexten, visat på klassiska härskartekniker och hittat några själv, jag har diskuterat detta och sedan givit exempel på psykologiska anledningar till mäns maktmissbruk över kvinnor. Slutligen har jag som motvikt till allt detta valt att presentera ett otraditionellt sätt att se på balans mellan man och kvinna.

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Sahlström, Felix. "Islamisk feminism : En diskursanalytisk studie av islamiska feministers syn på elementet hijab." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-241726.

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In the late 1900s the Islamic feminist movement arose in a time of an Islamic renaissance in the Arab world. Even though it started as an Arabic movement it quickly spread to the international arena and became global. Today there are Islamic feminists all over the globe and this study is a discourse analysis with a focus on the Islamic feminist movement of today. The aim of the study is to investigate what the members of the movement have in common and on what viewpoints their opinions differ. The material used for the study is Internet blogs written by Islamic feminists and the timeframe of the blog posts stretches from the start of the Arab Spring until today. There is a focus of the debate concerning hijab in the blog posts chosen in order to limit the available material. The conclusion of the essay is that there are similarities to be found on all the blogs concerning the issue of hijab. A majority of the bloggers agree that wearing hijab is compatible with the Islamic feminist discourse, but there is no complete consensus on the subject. Overall the results show that there are many similarities to be found concerning Islamic feminism that points toward that the Islamic feminism can be viewed as a holistic movement today. All writes argue that the pre-Islamic society was patriarchal and that this patriarchal society influenced misinterpretations of the Qur’an. Women became wrongfully minimized through the faulty interpretations and the bloggers argue that the Qur’an should be reanalysed. The bloggers describe that God’s initial intention was an equal society.

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Stenberg, Carl-Johan. "Religiös feminism och sufism : en hermeneutisk analys av sufisk teologi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296208.

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Larsén, Linda. "”Varför tar man för givet att feminismen måste vara sekulär?” : En studie om muslimska feminister i svensk kontext." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Religionsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-16876.

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The purpose of this study is to examine how two Muslim feminists perceive themselves to betreated by the Swedish majority society and within the secular feminist movement. Thesurvey was conducted using qualitative method with a total of two interviews. For the study'stheoretical perspectives, I have used postcolonialism and postcolonial feminism. The result ofthe survey and the analysis show that the informants say that they face an image of Muslimwomen as considered being under oppression. The informants believe that this stereotypicalimage has its origin from the colonial period. The question that is most important for themwithin feminism is to be treated as a feminist and as a Muslim without being questioned. Theyfeel like it's hard to identify with the Swedish secular feminism, but they also feel that thegroup of Swedish secular feminists have a difficulty identifying themselves with Muslimwomen too. Consider this, one of the informants does not feel welcome among Swedishsecular feminism while the other one never had an interest in becoming a member of itbecause she did not consider them to strive for the same goal as herself. The informantsclaims that there are opportunities for them to speak in the public debate, but as Muslimfeminists they are facing a bigger struggle.

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Hazratji, Zehra Z. "Conceptualizing fitna : how the opinions of Muslim feminists distort the image of Islām today /." Connect to online version, 2005. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2005/125.pdf.

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Turner-Rahman, Israt. "Consciousness blossoming Islamic feminism and Qur'anic exegesis in South Asian muslim diaspora communities /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/I_Turner-Rahman_050109.pdf.

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Taqi, Fatmatta B. "Breaking barriers : women in transition : an investigation into the new emerging social sub-group of professional Muslim women in Sierra Leone." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2010. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/266832/.

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Sierra Leone is in transition to peace and development, from a previous decade long civil war. Educated Muslim women appear to have a great deal of expression, interest and passion to offer the process. The study investigates the new emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women in Sierra Leone society and explores their views and experiences of identifying and attempting to overcome the burdens of patriarchy, oppression and exploitation perpetrated by religious, social and cultural beliefs. The research and thesis consider in what ways these women and their views ‘fit’ in or challenge society and their perceptions of the potential they have as models to impact on the lives of Sierra Leonean Muslim women nationwide. Using feminist influenced research practices in order to focus on the stories and voices of these women, the study contributes to the growth of knowledge related to the emergent changing roles and perceptions of Muslim women in present day Sierra Leone. This qualitative and interdisciplinary research develops a critical focus and deliberately combines literary sources in an informative context, with feminist research methods of interviews and focus groups on issues of gender equality and empowerment. Through the interviews and focus group discussions conducted, the research portrays the perceptions of the emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women, a cross section of grass-root Muslim women and a selection of male Muslims regarding empowerment, knowledge, culture, independence and oppression. These are also illustrated as the ways the participants embrace the concept of feminism and adapt it by drawing on their Sierra Leonean, Islamic, cultural and social traditions. The research examines the various ideologies that stifle the growth of Sierra Leonean Muslim women from their perspective and it analyses the strategies used by the professional women to tackle the oppressive and repressive customs and stand up against patriarchy. It was discovered through the findings that the research gives an insight into the determination and the conviction of professional Muslim women in advocating for social change and in making their voices heard. As an outcome, it is evidenced that this emerging social sub group of Muslim women appear to be inspiring self-development moves and changes not only among the uneducated grass-root majority, but in the fold of their Muslim men-folk, resulting in a visible impact of self development and self empowerment among Sierra Leonean Muslim women.

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Cotton, Jennifer. "Forced Feminism: Women, Hijab, and the One-Party State in Post-Colonial Tunisia." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-09012006-125508/.

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Thesis (B.A. Honors)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Kathryn McClymond, thesis director. Electronic text (45 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-45).

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Andersson, Karolina. "Att sätta muslimska kvinnors rättigheter på kartan : En studie av fem feministiska teoretikersperspektiv på islam och feminism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444015.

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Muslim women’s rights, and gender equality in the Muslim world, are commonly discussed subjects within the academic world. Feminism, as a term, is often connected to this topic of discussion. This thesis aims to analyze two different perspectives concerning how these rights should be achieved: Islamic feminism, using internal resources, and Muslim feminism, using external resources. Islamic feminism, as a strategy, proposes that by interpreting the Quran, the ultimate revelation of God, Islam could provide the central and egalitarian meaning of the Quran. There is disagreement within the academic community whether Islamic feminism would enable these rights. Muslim feminism, as a counterpoint to Islamic feminism, proposes that the state must become secularized. Rendering Islam and the state as separate entities. This thesis will utilize the theoretical perspective on Islam and feminism from five feministic academics. They all have different backgrounds, standpoints, and approaches towards the development of Muslim women’s rights, as well as what strategies they suggest to improve them. These strategies encounter different kinds of difficulties. The Islamic feminism, which uses the Quran, runs the risk of being too heavily associated with already established interpretations of the Quran. It may be seen as intertwined with existing fundamentalist views. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Muslim feminism may create a divide between Islam and women’s rights. This thesis aims to present the potential of different theoretical perspectives on Islam and feminism as well as the limitations on suggested strategies for improvement of Muslim women’s rights.

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Khariroh, Khariroh. "The Women's Movement in Indonesia's Pesantren: Negotiating Islam, Culture, and Modernity." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275938710.

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Khair, Nur Saadah Binti. "Anti-woman discourse in the Hadith literature : an analytical study of debates in literary works of feminists and fundamentalists." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8768/.

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This study analyses interpretations of Hadiths among selected feminists and fundamentalists, in which they have different views on the meaning of the texts of Hadiths concerning women. The feminists argue that the Hadith literature contain misogynistic and anti-women reports. This debate has gradually developed in the nineteenth century and the issues continuously disputed until the present day. However, the debate receives different reactions from the fundamentalists who believe that Hadiths contain equal treatment to both men and women. Therefore, the present study seeks firstly to investigate which Hadiths that have caught the attention of both feminists and fundamentalists, and to identify the features of those Hadiths that have been claimed as anti-women. Secondly, to examine and compare various approaches applied by both feminists and fundamentalists in comprehending Hadiths concerning women by examining their strength and weakness. Finally, this study aims to develop a means of utilising the findings to tum the debates between feminists and fundamentalists into something constructive in the interpretation of Hadith. The study is qualitative in nature, by applying textual analysis on literary works written by selected women figures from the feminists and fundamentalists. The study in its findings argues that both feminists and fundamentalist have their own interpretative approach towards the Hadith, but both have similar objective in protecting women's rights. It recommends that future research on the Hadiths concerning women inquire further into said problems and limitations, in order to produce fair and better understanding of the Prophetic texts that can contribute to the contemporary gender discourse.

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Serrander, Rickard. "”Det är inte möjligt för er att ge era hustrur lika behandling i allt” : En analys av muslimska feministiska författares syn på polygami." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-30760.

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The discussion of Islam and their view of the Koran is constantly ”under fire” where everyone has an opinion, even the non-muslims. In this paper, the goal was to find out how the believers themselves interpret and see the Koran. The focus of this study is mainly on two suras in Koran, sura 4 verse 3 and sura 4 verse 129. The purpose of the study is to analyze the Muslim feminist authors’ views on polygamy and their focus on the two suras. The material is from four different feminist authors that writes about polygamy, their view and opinion on polygamous marriages and about the polygamous message in the Koran. The study demonstrates that the feminist authors argue from similar basis when discussing polygamy. The two most common arguments that the authors use is argument of fairness, where there is no logic to why, the otherwise so fair God, isn’t it then it comes to the terms of polygamy. Another argument that the authors bring up is the evolutionary argument, which the authors believe that the interpreters of the Koran in the present should take into account the historical development when they interpret the suras. The four different authors bring up similar arguments but different views on how polygamy in Islam and in the Koran should and can be interpreted.

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Shehabuddin, Sarah Tasnim. "Going beyond Conflict: Secular Feminists, Islamists, and Gender Policy Reform." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10607.

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Today, most Muslim-majority countries must contend with two realities: Islamists’ increasing access to political participation on the one hand and domestic and international pressures for women’s rights on the other. This dissertation seeks to identify the conditions necessary for resolving tensions between Islamist demands for political inclusion and secular feminists’ demands for the institutionalization of women’s rights in Muslim-majority countries. Attempts at gender reform have not only been rare, but have also usually excluded either secular feminists or Islamists due to state actors’ inability or unwillingness to resolve conflict between them. In some contexts, however, power holders have initiated inclusive consultative arrangements, mechanisms (commissions, committees, and mediation) that enable both secular feminists and Islamists to participate in gender policy-making processes, in spite of divergent ideological preferences, and thereby generated more broadly supported reforms. This dissertation argues that attempts at conflict resolution between secular feminists and Islamists are more likely to arise in the context of an autonomous state where the power holder needs the support of both groups. Such a state has both the flexibility and willingness to include both Islamists and secular feminists in the policy-making process. In states that do not enjoy autonomy from non-state actors, the state is less likely to have the flexibility to adopt policy-making processes that do not serve the politicized interests of dominant actors. I build this argument by conducting a comparative historical analysis of state development and relations among power holders, secular feminists, and Islamists, as well as drawing on interviews with politicians, bureaucrats, scholars, and activists in Morocco and Bangladesh. In both of these countries, secular feminists and Islamists have had antagonistic relations and ideological differences, but both groups participated in gender policy reform in Morocco, whereas in Bangladesh, multiple attempts at gender policy-making have excluded one group or the other. I then assess the extent to which an argument based on state autonomy and political alliances explains variation in the inclusiveness of gender policy-making processes in four other Muslim-majority countries (Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey, and Pakistan).
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Muttaqin, Farid. "Progressive Muslim Feminists in Indonesia from Pioneering to the Next Agendas." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1213212021.

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Fagerström, Ulla. "Genus Jihad : En studie av genusmedvetenhetens ursprung och några av dess olika uttryck inom islam." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2093.

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Mahfoodh, Hajar Ali. "Hijab in the Eyes of Little Muslim Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1218545019.

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Edvall, Betty. "Den föreställda kvinnan i hijab : En etnologisk studie om sociala kategoriseringar, normer, hijab och feminism." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-18398.

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Hur kan ett klädesplagg som betyder ”tillbakadragenhet” väcka så starka känslor? Det här är en etnologisk studie om socialistfeministers normsystem och sociala kategoriseringar. Informanters berättelser om det samhälle de växte upp i och det samhälle de lever i idag, hur det formar och förklarar en föreställning om kvinnan i hijab. Med hjälp av postkolonial diskurs analyseras synen på jämställdhet och frihet. Den föreställda kvinnan i hijab kan inte komma att intervjuvas eftersom hon är just en föreställning. Den föreställningen om henne går hand i hand med den postkoloniala diskurs vi påverkas så mycket av.

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Sarsilmaz, Defne. ""I am a Teacher, a Woman's Activist, and a Mother": Political Consciousness and Embodied Resistance in Antakya's Arab Alawite Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3542.

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Often pointed to as the region’s model secular state, Turkey provides an instructive case study in how nationalism, in the name of conjuring ‘unity’, often produces the opposite effect. Indeed, the production of nationalism can create fractures amongst, as well as politicize, certain segments of a population, such as minority groups and women. This dissertation examines the long-term and present-day impacts on nationalist unity of a largely understudied event, the annexation of the border-city of Antakya from Syria in 1939, and its implications on the Arab Alawite population. In doing so, it deconstructs the dominant Turkish narrative on the annexation, rewrites the narrative drawing on oral history from the ground, and it shows how nation-building is a masculinist project that relies on powerfully gendered language through studying the national archives. The heart of the project, however, remains the investigation of the political, social, and religious subjectivity of Arab Alawite women, with an emphasis on resistance to the structures and practices sustained by the state and patriarchy. The Arab Alawites, once numerically dominant in the Antakya region, are now an ethno-religious minority group within the Turkish/Sunni-dominated state structure. Although Antakya was the last territory to join Turkey in 1939, ever since that time many of its Alawites have resisted assimilation through covert, yet peaceful, methods. Through this research, I show that a multiplicity of forces have increased the politicization of the Antiochian Alawite community and broadened their demands upon the Turkish state. My research highlights Alawite women’s leadership as a key driver of this process, thanks to the large-scale out migration of Alawite men, the increased socio-economic independence of Alawite women, and the perception of more progressive gender ideals being held by the members of this Muslim sect, when compared to those of nearby Sunni Turkish women. This dissertation relies on a postcolonial and feminist geopolitical analysis of the Turkish nationalist project to examine how the Turkish state has historically viewed Antakya and the Arab Alawites and how, in return, the experience and collective social and political memory of Alawites was formed. By utilizing innovative methodologies, this research shows how Alawite women are resisting/rewriting/reconfiguring political and social structures through everyday actions that shift the discourse on minorities and women on local and national scales.

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DaCrema, Norma. "TRANSCENDING THE FEMININE: NEGOTIATING GENDER IN THE MYSTICISM OF IBN AL-‘ARABĪ AND FRANCIS OF ASSISI." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/313501.

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Explorations of how "the feminine" functions in the systematic mystical theology of Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240) begin, in English, with Reynold Nicholson's early 20th century analysis of Tarjumān al-Ashwāq and extend through the work of dozens of scholars since then, most notably Henry Corbin, Toshihiko Izutsu, William Chittick, Sachiko Murata and Sa'diyya Shaikh. (Of course, one could argue that such studies in Arabic reach back as far as his foremost disciple al-Qunawi, and his foremost critic, Ibn Tamiyya. St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) shares with the Shaykh a general historical context as well as a famously passionate devotion to mystical practice as a strategy for achieving proximity to God. He, too, has engendered scholarly interest in his attitude toward women and the feminine as intrinsic to making that ascent, and not just among his earliest hagiographers, but through hundreds of interpreters since, most recently André Vauchez and Jacques Dalarun. Yet, despite generations of scholarship on that point, a comparative study of these two mystics has yet to be published. "Transcending the Feminine: Negotiations of Gender in the Mysticism of Ibn al-ʿArabī and Francis of Assisi" endeavors to fill that gap, and in so doing to unpack the distinctive aspects of the saint's and the Shaykh's mystical approaches, demonstrating intersections as well as departure points. Instrumental to that task are the conclusions of feminist scholars focusing on either man, but also--because the question of the feminine is so intimately associated in mystical texts with physical and spiritual desire--such an endeavor is relevant to the psychoanalytical approach to medieval religious texts, one made possible by Sigmund Freud and particularly Jacques Lacan, and then expanded upon by Luce Irigaray and Amy Hollywood. The pathway linking Francis and Ibn al-ʿArabī traverses their mysticisms, their use of metaphorical language, their specific constructions of gender, theologically and poetically, and their surprisingly complementary strategies for underscoring how the physical body emerges as crucial to the mystical ascent. Accordingly, this dissertation navigates the intriguing space in between the two--that is, in Ibn al-ʿArabī's phrasing, the barzakh where the ultimate priorities of one virtually touch those of the other, yet in a way that preserves their contradictions.
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Rezaeisahraei, Afsaneh. "Agency Between Narratives: Women, Faith, and Sociability in Irangeles." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587660771187606.

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Esbjörnsson, Anton. "Muslimsk feminism - två perspektiv : En kvalitativ textanalys om hur två muslimska feministiska teologer förhåller sig till den islamiska traditionen." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44769.

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This study examines two Muslim feminist theologians and their approach to the Islamic tradition and the religious sources. The purpose of the study is to examine their presentation and interpretation of the sources from a feminist perspective and to compare their arguments. Former studies have shown that the authors aim to convince the reader that their message are the right one by using a reinterpretation of the sources and that feminist authors argue that the ideal message of the Quran is equality between the sexes. The interpretations through history are considered to be misogynic because the male religious elite have controlled the progress of the discursive tradition. A theoretical approach involving The basket metaphor by Jan Hjärpe, the theory about symbolic universes by Berger & Luckmann and the discussion about the anthropology of islam by Talal Asad are used to explain how the Muslim feminists relate to the Islamic tradition. The result show that both authors defend Islam as a religion but have different approaches regarding their interpretation. They are both using the Islamic sources to argue why the ideal in Islamic tradition are equality between the sexes. Mernissi mainly focusses on the actors in history to explain why woman should have equal rights and Wadud mainly focuses on the linguistics of the sources. The result also shows that there has been a shift in attitude. Mernissi had in her earlier texts a negative attitude towards the early years of Islam and meant that Muhammed and his companions restricted the agency of women. Later in her texts it is clear that she has a more positive approach. Wadud on the other hand stated in her earlier text that all verses in the Quran has a desire for equality. In her later text she declares that there are problematic verses in the Quran and that they could be disregarded.

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Hamdah, Butheina. "Liberalism and the Impact on Religious Identity: Hijab Culture in the American Muslim Context." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo151335793140375.

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Khan, Zaynab. "Women Rights and Islam : A study of women rights and effects of Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim feminism in the Kurdish area of Iraq." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-3265.

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Lack of women rights in the international society is something that UN and other international human organizations are striving against. Women oppression is common in many countries, but is often connected with the Muslim countries. Women oppression is something that is against UN: s definition of human rights. The international society has therefore tried to protect the women, and has formed resolutions, conventions and so on, for their security.

According to the Iraqi regime, human rights are an important question. The country has therefore signed the UN: s convention about women rights. Since the year of 1992, when the Kurdish area of Iraq became self- governed, Kurdistan has started programs that favour women rights. Organizations and institutions have for example been established, that are struggling for the women in the society. The ruling government has also instituted some laws that favour women rights.

Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim feminism are two theories that today have supporters in the international society. Both of those theories and their supporters believes in the Quran and use it to justify their own actions, but in different ways. The fundamentalists emphasize the differences that, by the nature, exist between the sexes. According to the fundamentalists, women and men have different responsibilities in the society. The feminists on the other hand believe in equality between the sexes and mean that women oppression has its origin in an erroneous interpretation of the Quran.

Different kinds of crimes against women rights issues are today common in Kurdistan. Many of those crimes don’t have any support in neither UN, nor the Quran. Muslim feminists, the department for human rights and the women organizations all has agreed about the meaning of women rights. They believe in UN: s definition of women rights and they all use the Quran to justify women right issues. Islamic fundamentalists on the other hand also use the Quran for justifying their actions, but they don’t believe in UN: s definition of women rights.

So both Muslim feminists and Islamic fundamentalists exist today in Kurdistan, and their engagement in women issues is therefore affecting the work of the organizations and the department.

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Camara, Samba. "Recording Postcolonial Nationhood: Islam and Popular Music in Senegal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510780384221502.

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Lima, Cila. "Feminismo islâmico: mediações discursivas e limites práticos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-07082017-121004/.

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A pesquisa proposta aqui tem como objeto de estudo o feminismo islâmico, movimento político-religioso de luta contra a opressão e a dominação sobre a população de mulheres, presente em países muçulmanos e em diásporas muçulmanas. Concebido aqui lato sensu como uma atuação feminista associada à reinterpretação das fontes religiosas do Islã, baseado nos conceitos islâmicos de ijtihad (interpretação racional das fontes religiosas) e de tafsir (comentários sobre o Alcorão), para repensar a posição da mulher na sociedade muçulmana. A hipótese que conduz a presente investigação é a de que o feminismo islâmico pode ser pensado a partir de três eixos constitutivos, interligados entre si: 1) a separação em duas vertentes, de um lado, um ativismo religioso, auto-definido como jihad de gênero, cujas reivindicações parecem sobrepor o Islã aos direitos das mulheres, e, de outro, um ativismo político, definido como defensor dos direitos humanos internacionais, cujas reivindicações são no sentido de aplicar ao Islã os direitos das mulheres; 2) a ideia de continuidade, no sentido de eliminar qualquer visão maniqueísta sobre as duas tendências, estabelecendo aqui um contínuo entre elas em que suas narrativas e atuações circulam de um extremo ao outro, de um lado dos extremos, aproximam-se de uma narrativa islamista e de, outro lado dos extremos, aproximamse de parâmetros discursivos do feminismo secular; e, 3) as forças em disputa, atualmente há três principais forças em disputa no âmbito dos movimentos sociais de mulheres em países muçulmanos e diásporas, considerando a realidade fora dos conflitos armados: os movimentos feministas seculares, o movimento islamista de mulheres (esses dois tipos de movimentos com origens nos anos 20, no Egito) e o feminismo islâmico (de origem, nos anos 80, desterritorializada e transnacional). Este estudo parte de dois pressupostos: primeiro, o de que os movimentos feministas em países muçulmanos não estão isolados do contexto internacional, os seus desenvolvimentos acompanham as tensões dos movimentos feministas internacionais, sendo expressões da internacionalização dos movimentos feministas seculares e, depois, de hibridações culturais e movimentos identitários pós-coloniais; e, segundo, o de que o feminismo islâmico, com as suas características específicas político-religiosas, tencionado entre o reformismo e o conservadorismo, é em sua essência um movimento relativista religioso, ao se dirigir exclusivamente às mulheres muçulmanas. Assim, o objetivo principal desta pesquisa é o de compreender quais as contribuições desse feminismo islâmico para a transformação da vida da mulher muçulmana, considerando duas questões centrais: a) como se pode compreender a relação do feminismo islâmico com os movimentos islamistas? e b) em que medida o caráter religioso do feminismo islâmico pode ser o limitador (ou extensor) de seu caráter feminista? Para tal, será feita uma abordagem dos seguintes recortes temáticos, que inicialmente parecem abarcar grande parte dos aspectos mais evidentes do objeto de estudo, na perspectiva proposta aqui: 1) o feminismo secular de origem ocidental e seus desdobramentos no mundo muçulmano, entre a secularização e a reislamização; 2) as afinidades passadas e presentes do feminismo islâmico com a ideologia, o movimento e o modelo islamista; e 3) o grau de persuasão em que o feminismo islâmico pode estar intervindo na consciência e na prática social, considerando suas contradições.
The subject of study of this paper, Islamic feminism, is a political-religious movement struggling against the oppression and domination of the population of women in Muslim countries and in Muslim diasporas. It is understood here, in the wider sense, as a feminist movement associated with the reinterpretation of the religious sources of Islam, based on the Islamic concepts of ijtihad (rational interpretation of religious sources) and tafsir (interpretations of the Koran), to rethink the position of women in Muslim society. The hypothesis underpinning the present study is that Islamic feminism can be thought of as having three interconnected constituent axes: 1) a separation in two distinct tendencies; on the one hand, religious activism, self-defined as a \"gender jihad\", whose grievances seem to superimpose Islam on women\'s rights, and, on the other hand, political activism, defined as defending international human rights, whose demands seek to apply Islam to women\'s rights; 2) the idea of continuity, in the sense of eliminating any Manichean view of the two aforementioned tendencies, establishing a continuum between the two in which their narratives and actions move from one extreme to the other; at one extreme, approaching an Islamist narrative and, at the other extreme, the discursive parameters of secular feminism; and 3) the forces in disputes; of which we can discern three current main forces in dispute within the social movements of women in Muslim countries and diasporas, taking into consideration the reality outside of the armed conflicts: Secular Feminist movements, the Islamist women\'s movement (these two movements have their origins in Egypt in the 1920s) and Islamic feminism (originating in the 1980s and characterized as de-territorialized and transnational). This study is based on two assumptions: first, that feminist movements in Muslim countries are not isolated from the international context, their developments accompany the struggles of the international feminist movements, being expressions of the internationalization of secular feminist movements and, later, of cultural hybridizations and post-colonial identity movements; and, second, that Islamic feminism, with its specific religious-political characteristics, exists in a state of tension between reformism and conservatism, and is essentially a relativistic religious movement, in that it is addressed exclusively to Muslim women. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to understand the role of Islamic feminism in the transformation of the lives of Muslim women, taking into consideration two central questions: a) how can we understand the relation between Islamic feminism and Islamist movements? and b) to what extent can the religious elements of Islamic feminism be the constraint (or expansion) of its feminist characteristics? To this end, we will address the following themes, which initially seem to cover a large part of the most obvious aspects of the object of study, within the perspective proposed here: 1) secular feminism of \"Western origin\" and its developments in the Muslim world, between secularization and re-Islamization; 2) the past and present affinities of Islamic feminism with Islamist ideology, the Islamist movement and its model; and (3) the degree of influence that Islamic feminism may have on social consciousness and practices, taking into account its contradictions.

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Tukukino, Josefine. "Vilken är kvinnans roll? : En innehållsanalys utifrån två av Judith Plaskows litterära verk som ställs komparativt mot verk av Geraldine Brooks och Mohammad Fazlhashemi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-302771.

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This study aims to take a closer look at how women in the Jewish tradition are portrayed in two Judith Plaskows books, Standing again at Sinai and The coming of Lilith: Essays on feminism, Judaism, and sexual ethics, 1972-2003. The way that Plaskow presents women in her books will be compared to Geraldine Brooks's book Nine parts of desire and Mohammad Fazlhashemis book Vems islam? and their portrayal of women in the Islamic culture. The study uses one of the interdisciplinary theories called intersectional theory to critically examine the chosen literature. The issues the study will try to answer are based upon the theory. The issues are: 1) how are women perceived in the Jewish and Muslim communities according to the different authors? 2) What aspects do the authors believe has affected the outcome of women's position within religious communities? 3) Do the authors mention men and if they have affected women's discourse? And if mentioned do they believe men's influence was/is positive or negative?

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Abrahams, Zulfa. "Perceptions of empowerment: a study of muslim women living in the greater Cape Town Metropole." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1544.

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This thesis is a small scale in depth exploration into the perceptions of power held by eight Muslim women residing in the Cape Town Metropole area. Using a Qualitative Feminist approach the study aimed to explore and shed light on the multiple ways in which Muslim women negotiate, construct and co-construct agency, power and authority in their everyday lives. This study also sought to explore whether Muslim women who appear independent or empowered actually feel in control of their own lives; and how their ability to make choices is mediated by intersecting identities such as race, class, age, etc. The research highlights a number of emergent themes in which discussion of the women views around education, finance, reproductive responsibilities, patriarchy, etc. takes place and also explores the ways in which the women contest and resist traditional cultural norms in their everyday experiences. Furthermore this study also sought to create a space where the researcher focused and refocused her gaze on the theoretical and epistemological aspects of her chosen method of enquiry in order to interrogate its merits and limits. Upon reflection the researcher also acknowledges that, similar to the participants, she also holds contradictory views on some of the issues discussed.
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Blomqvist, Anna. "Tysta skrik, krig eller kamp? : Islam och sexualitet i dokumentärfilmen A Jihad for Love analyserat utifrån ett intersektionellt genusperspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2527.

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In this thesis I have done a discourse analysis of the documentary movie A Jihad for Love. A Jihad for Love came out 2007 and is directed by Parvez Sharma. The documentary movie is about homosexual Muslims and their jihad, struggle, for love and to be accepted in a world where they are barely recognized as a group. My aim of the thesis was to see how the movie portrays the persons who are in the film and their relationship to Islam and who gets access to the religion. I have also analyzed if Islam can be used to strengthen the sexual identity or if it works in the opposite way. I have used the theoretical instrument of intersectionality and religious proximity with a gender perspective with focus on sexuality and religion to analyze my material. My conclusions of the thesis are that the men in the movie are often more portrayed as active subjects that can use the religion as a tool to strengthen the sexuality. The women are more portrayed as inactive objects that cannot use the religion to strengthen their sexual identity because of different power axes, like gender and sexuality, which collide and with each other. Another conclusion is that men have a higher grade of religious proximity which makes them closer to God, whereas the women traditionally don’t have the same closeness to God and cannot therefore have the same power in the religious hierarchy.

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Flygt, Maja. ""Alla svenskar tycker samma sak, att muslimer har ingenting här att göra" : En kvalitativ analys av sex svenska kvinnors negativa inställning till islam." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Religionsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31810.

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Uppsatsen bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer med sex svenska kvinnor som har en öppet negativ inställning till islam och muslimer i Sverige. Syftet är att dels nå en djupare förståelse om kvinnornas negativa inställning till islam och muslimer men också om deras inställning till feminism. Undersökningen bygger på tre teorier, Edward Saids postkoloniala teori samt två teorier om social identitet, dessa är Erving Goffmans teori om stigma och Hanri Tajfels teori om relationen mellan grupper. I uppsatsen framkommer det att kvinnorna sammankopplar en undergång för det svenska samhället med muslimsk invandring. Återkommande hos alla kvinnorna var en upplevelse av att muslimer tar för stort utrymme i de offentliga rummen. Kvinnornas inställning till muslimer kan förstås som ett resultat av föreställningen av muslimer som en ut-grupp som kvinnorna jämför sig med och hotas av. Kvinnorna tar på olika vis till sig diskriminerande åtgärder för att behålla en särprägel och överlägsen position i samhällshierarkin. Kvinnorna tar även starkt avstånd mot feminister som visar sig vara sammanlänkat med deras inställning till muslimer. Deras negativitet visar sig bland annat grundas i en upplevelse av relativ deprivation. Kvinnorna upplever en orättvisa mot sin in-grupp som grundas på att de tycker att de som sitter på makten i samhället missköter sin position.

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