Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation / Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakhshizadeh, Marziyeh Dr., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic thought streams: fundamentalist.

reformist and secularist.

women’s rights.

globalization.

Local Subjects:

Islamic thought streams: fundamentalist.

reformist and secularist.

women’s rights.

globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leverkusen Budrich UniPress 2018

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Summary:

Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolution from the perspectives of the main currents of Islamic thought, fundamentalists, reformists, and seculars, using a sociological explanation.

Contents:

Cover

Changing Gender Norms in Islam. Between Reason and Revelation

Acknowledgements

Contents

Part One: Understanding Changing Gender Norms in the Modern Era

1 Conceptualizing Gender, Religion and Islam

2 Towards a Theoretical Model for Changing Gender Norms in the Main Streams of Islamic Thought

2.1 Religion in Sociology

2.2 The Dialectical Relationship Between Religion and Human Being: Pluralism, Rationality and the Crisis of Meaning

2.3 Islam and Structuration Theory: Between Individual Agency and Global Justice

2.4 Religion and Recognition

2.5 Theoretical Approach to Analysing Changing Gender Normsin the Main Currents of Islam

3 Methodology for Comparative Research on theMain Currents of Islam

4 Women's Rights in Iran and CEDAW: a Comparison

4.1 An Overview on the History of Women's Rights in Iran

4.2 The Emergence of CEDAW as a Global Norm of Gender Justice

4.3 Women's Rights in the Current Laws of the Islamic Republic of Iranin Comparison with CEDAW

5 Three Streams of Thought in the Near East and Iran and Their Views on Women's Rights

5.1 Women's Position in Diverse Currents of Islamic and Secular Thought in the Near East: the State of Research

5.2 Some Aspects of the Historical Development of the Islamic Mu'tazili and Ash'ari Schools

Part Two: Changing Gender Norms in the Main Currents of Islamic thought in Iran

Introduction

6 Revelation and Gender Norms in the Fundamentalist Perspective

6.1 Religion as Structure

6.2 Individual Agency and Human Reason

6.3 Global Norms of Justice and Human Dignity

6.4 Women's Rights in the Fundamentalist Perspective

7 Gender Norms Between Revelation und Human Reason in the Reformist Perspective

7.1 Individual Agency and Rationality in the Reformist View

7.2 Reformists and Global Norms of Justice and Human Dignity.

7.3 Women's Rights in the Reformist Perspective

8 Seculars and Human Reason

8.1 Structural Approach to Religion

8.2 Individual Agency in a Rational Reading of Islam

8.3 Global Norms of Justice and Human Dignity in the Secular Perspective

9 Changing Gender Norms in the Dialectical Relationship Between Revelation and Human Reason

9.1 The Model for the Dialectical Relationship Between Religion, Revelation, Reason and Individual Agency

9.2 Main Currents of Islamic Thought

9.3 Desert-Based Notion of Justice

9.4 Justice Based on Individual Self-Determination Versus Desert-Based Justice

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-SA

ISBN:

9783863882983

OCLC:

1287287923

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3224/86388735

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access