The rights of women to religious spaces
WOMEN HAVE BEEN prevented from leading the prayer, issuing the adhān call to prayer or delivering sermons inside the mosque. Women have been…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
WOMEN HAVE BEEN prevented from leading the prayer, issuing the adhān call to prayer or delivering sermons inside the mosque. Women have been…
IN ANY SOCIETAL issue that is marked by continuous change and influence from the cultural and social environment, such as…
WE NEED FIRST to shed some light on the plurality of religious opinions and interpretations, old and new, concerning the…
IN SHARĪ‘A IT HAS two aspects: collective and individual. The collective aspect is to do one’s best to remove everything…
YET THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Shaykh of Al-Azhar all know that all he did was interpret a clear verse that…
RELIGIOUS LEADERS have continued their intransigence towards women’s education to this day. The Saudi Shaykh ibn Ḥumayd issued the following fatwā:…
SINCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE AGES was forbidden to women (even in Europe up until the end of the eighteenth century),…
IT IS ALSO WORTH mentioning that over the centuries women have occupied the highest ranks in government and state such…
BUT THE FACT REMAINS that its real source is history, and despite this the Revelation (in which the collective and…
BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE? One has to combine two complementary strategies: leave the veiled students to study and…