Muslim Feminists` Reading of the Quran: A Juristic Analysis on Family Law Issues

Mazahib Pub Date : 2018-06-30 DOI:10.21093/MJ.V17I1.1056
Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef, Saidatolakma Mohd Yunus, Mohammed Farid Ali al-Fijawi
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Muslim feminist movement represents an indigenous voice among the contemporary literature on women and family. Its main contention is that women in Muslim society are accorded less favourable treatment especially in terms of legal rights. To remedy the situation, feminist scholarship`s main argument is that there is a need for feminist-reading of the sacred texts so as to purge the juristic legacy of male-biased views and achieve justice and equality for Muslim women in contemporary families. One principal methodological framework for this idea to materialise is to embark on the re-reading of the Qur`an from the women`s perspective. In this context, this paper presents issue-based analysis of Amina Wadud`s reading of the relevant Qur`anic passages on family law matters and finds that in spite of its merits, its main handicap lies on its methodological flaws, both in terms of approach and outcome. Methodologically, it is regarded as selective and ultra-vires of Islamic methodology of legal reform. It terms of impact, it is suspected as being tainted with Western inspired assumptions of rights in terms of justice and equality between the genders. To overcome this impasse, the paper argues for a mediated holistic approach to harmonise relations between men and women in the family.  Keywords : Family law, gender equality, justice, Muslim feminist.
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穆斯林女权主义者对《古兰经》的解读——对家庭法问题的法学分析
穆斯林女性主义运动代表了当代女性与家庭文学中的本土声音。它的主要论点是,穆斯林社会中的妇女待遇较差,特别是在法律权利方面。为了纠正这种情况,女权主义学者的主要论点是,有必要对神圣文本进行女权主义阅读,以清除男性偏见观点的法律遗产,并为当代家庭中的穆斯林妇女实现正义和平等。实现这一观点的一个主要方法论框架是从女性的角度重新阅读古兰经。在此背景下,本文对Amina Wadud对《古兰经》中关于家庭法问题的相关段落的阅读进行了基于问题的分析,并发现尽管其优点,其主要缺陷在于其方法上的缺陷,无论是在方法上还是在结果上。在方法论上,它被认为是伊斯兰法律改革方法论的选择性和超美德。就影响而言,它被怀疑沾染了西方在正义和性别平等方面的权利假设。为了克服这一僵局,本文主张采用一种调解的整体方法来协调家庭中男女之间的关系。关键词:家庭法,性别平等,正义,穆斯林女权主义者
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