This is a call for Muslims to stand behind women in prayer as a matter of “civil” disobedience in the face of a clear injustice, even in the face of the discomfort. By Laury Silvers, May 12, 2005 […].
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الابتعاد عن الطاعة العمياء وفتح باب الاجتهاد
هل ينبغي علينا أن نعمل من أجل رفع مستوى تعليم النساء وتحسين وضعهن في المجتمع، أم ينبغي علينا القيام بأعمال رمزية قد يؤثر إيجابيا على وضعهن تساؤلات تطرحها الفقيهة الألمانية حليمة كراوزن. […].
Human Rights, Women and Islam
The ISIM invited 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi for her first formal visit to the Netherlands where she met with members of NGOs, government officials, scholars, students, and activists from 15-17 April 2004. On 16 April she gave a lecture at the Nieuwe of Littéraire Sociëteit de Witte in The Hague entitled, Human Rights, Women and Islam which […].
Expectations from the Muslim Woman
Prior to beginning my lecture, I would like to propose some practical suggestions. Speaking about women’s rights, women’s personality and Islam’s view of women differs a great deal from the realization of the actual value which Islam gives to human beings, and to women, in particular. Most often we are satisfied by pointing out that Islam gives great value […].
L’égalité entre hommes et femmes. Selon le Coran et la Tradition.
La plupart des musulmans croient, comme les juifs et les chrétiens, qu’Adam fut la première créature de Dieu et que Ève fut créée à partir d’une côte d’Adam. Le plupart des musulmans sont choqués quand ils sont confrontés au fait que cette antique croyance est dérivée de la Bible et est en contradiction avec le récit de la création humaine que l’on trouve […].
Expérience et doctrine de l’amour chez Ibn Arabî.
Par Dieu, j’éprouve de l’amour à un point tel que, me semble-t-il, les cieux se disloqueraient, les étoiles s’affaisseraient, les montagnes s’ébranleraient si je leur en confiais la charge [1] : telle est mon expérience de l’amour…” [2]
Contraction and Expansion of Women’s Rights
Q. New religious thinking in our society has remained consistently silent on women’s issues. There may be a number of reasons for this silence : it may be that some of the thinkers involved feel that there’s no such thing as women-specific issues ; or that women’s problems will be solved when the fundamental problems of society are solved and that the more […].
