A Recent Political-Religious Movement: Islamic Feminism

Authors

  • Cila Lima Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

This paper aims to display a panel of origin and main theoretical formulations of Islamic feminism, political-religious movement of fight against oppression and domination over the women’s population, present in Muslim countries and in Muslim diasporas. Here conceived broadly as a feminist praxis associated to the reinterpretation of the religious sources of Islam, based on the Islamic concept of ijtihad (free and rational interpretation of religious sources) and tafsir (commentaries on the koran), to rethink the position of women in society Muslim. In this sense, it will be addressed Egypt and Turkey, two key countries in the construction of feminisms in the Middle East.

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Published

2014-05-19

How to Cite

Lima, C. (2014). A Recent Political-Religious Movement: Islamic Feminism. Revista Estudos Feministas, 22(2), 593–616. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Dossiê: Cartografias Descoloniales de los Feminismos del Sur

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