Islamic Feminism Discourses On Gender And Sexuality In Contemporary Islam | Religion

This book sets out a rationale for the compatibility of Islam and Feminism and shows that Islamic Feminism is a diverse and valuable lens through which to analyse religion and gender. In addition including scholarship written in Arabic it promotes the decolonisation of knowledge production around Islam gender and sexuality. Islamic feminism is a field of study that has been marginalised both in contemporary Islamic discourse and in feminist discourse. This study counters this marginalisation in two ways. Firstly it enumerates the diversity of approaches used in Islamic feminist scholarship. Secondly it foregrounds voices that are often neglected in discussions of Islam gender and sexuality by highlighting and contrasting the work of two key scholars: Kecia Ali based in the USA and Olfa Youssef based in Tunisia. The book suggests that in addition to geo-political positioning language as a ‘prior-text’ also influences an individual’s personal interpretation of Islamic feminism. This comparison therefore enables broader issues to be dissected such as the interrelationships between life experiences strategies of resistance to patriarchal and other forms of oppression and the production of knowledge. This is a unique study of Islamic Feminism that will be of great use to any scholar of Religion and Gender Islamic Studies Gender Studies and the Sociology of Religion. |Islamic Feminism Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Islam | Religion