Gender and Family Studies

Gender and Family Studies

'methodological developments of 'Islamic feminism

Authors
1 Faculty Member of Tarbiat Modares University, Department of Woman’s Studies
2 Ph. D Candidate of Women’s Studies, Tarbiat Modares University
Abstract
Islamic feminism has been articulated through recent decades as an alternative to traditional Islamic thinking on women’s issues. Scholars who are identified as Islamic feminists use different methodological approaches like hermeneutics, historical criticism, and woman perspective in their works on various subjects of study. These scholars who have different cultural and philosophical backgrounds and some of them do not identify themselves as Islamic feminist, share a characteristic that is their attempt to deconstruct gender ideology attributed to Islam. This paper tries to investigate the methodological components of the academic literature of “Islamic feminist” scholars through a comparative study of their works and finds some philosophical-epistemic bases for their methodologies. These bases, as researched in this paper, include the feminist meta-theory, orientalism, post-modernism and post-structuralism, neo-mutazelism, and progressive Islam.
Keywords

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