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Respected friends,
Kindly send in your comments; I expect to be benefited by them as I shortly
intend to publish a translation of the work  in Malayalam, which is my
mother tongue.
Warmly,
Venu.




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Women and Islam: An Historical and Theological EnquiryWomen and Islam: An
Historical and Theological EnquiryFatima Mernissi
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Women and Islam: An Historical and Theological Enquiry
by Fatima Mernissi
In this book the author, who is both a feminist and a Muslim, aims to shed
light on the status of women in Islam by examining and reassessing the
literary sources as far back as 7th century Islam. She portrays how, far
from being the oppressor of women that his detractors have claimed, the
Prophet upheld the equality of all true believers. Here is a bold
reconciliation of feminism with the... (more)

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     “ Fatima Mernissi has done an epoch making and scholarly exploration of
the Suras (original Quranic verses) and the Hadits (accounts by the
Companions of the Prophet about how the Messenger of God responded to
challenging moments in the lives of first generation of
believers,methodically cross checked and compiled by religious scholars who
lived in the first two centuries of Islam) along with the interpretations
since then. The major findings of the author are the following:
     1. The Prophet undoubtedly wanted no separation between the public and
private realms of life.
     2. His vision of a monotheistic universal faith is absolutely
egalitarian and that is a world in which women could shoulder equal roles
with that of men in political, social and economic realms with a view to
creating a new world that would assure peace and happiness to all humans.
     3. While Islam would not sanction the practice of slavery among the
believers, continuation of that institution for several centuries was
possible in the actual islamic regimes thanks to the denial of option (to
the new religion )to the prisoners of wars, who were mostly women from the
pre Islamic kingdoms. However,their chidren were considered free persons.
These women were treated as slaves and they were traded off or exchanged as
booty.
     4.The descend of Hijab,the physical as well as the symbolicl separation
of private and public spaces happened as a response to the grave crisis in
the Medina priod,which corresponded to the later phase in the life of the
Prophet. Years between Hejra 3-8 (AD 625- 628) were crtical periods of
crisis characterized by severe losses and uncertainity both on the side of
military expetitions and on the socio-economic life of people.
     5. Evenwhile the Prophet together with his wives and many of the
articulate women in the Medinese city continued adherence to the principle
of equality( between men and women) , they encountered lot of social abuses
on account of this.
     6. The prominent of the male Companions led by his son in law Umer
continuously pressed on the Prophet to impose restrictions for women. They
persisted on the view that solution to the above crisis of credibility and
above all the insecurity, was in the separation of the Muslim space into
two- public space was to be preserved as exclusive domain of men, and the
private space as the secluded space for women- both these spaces to be
separated by a Hijab-
     7. The Hijab ultimately descended from the Heaven as revealed to the
Prophet during the night of a wedding dinner in connection with his first
night with Zainab in the year Hejra 5 (AD 627). The immediate provocation of
the incident, according to a Hadith, was boorish behaviour of three men who
continued to linger there chatting, sitting in the room without leaving the
place even after the dinner; Prophet was eagerly waiting to be left alone in
the company of Zainab,his new bride sitting in the same room. ”
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