Old shaykhs, young women, and the internet: The rewriting of women's political rights in Islam

Muslim World

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 99-120

  Stowasser, Barbara ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949406079     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2001.tb03709.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cf. Heba Raouf Ezzat, "Al-mar'a wal-ijtihād, "in Alif no. 19 (1999), 96-120
2. Qadaya al mar'a bayna al-taqalid al-rakida wal-wafida (Cairo: Dar al-Shuruq, 1990, sixth printing 1996)
3. Fatāwa mu'asira, vol. I (Cairo and Kuwait: Dar al-Qalam, seventh printing, 1998), vol. II (al-Mansura: Dar al-Wafa', third printing 1994)
4. Christian Science Monitor(March 9, 2000)
5. Christian Science Monitor(January 17, 2001)
6. On the two 1952 Azharite fatwas concerning women's suffrage (in Egypt), cf. Jacob Skovgaard-Petersen, Defining Islam for the Egyptian State, 177-79
7. Al-barakat al-nisa'iyyah wa-silatuhu bi'l-isti'mār (Cairo: Dar al-Ansar: 1978).-The Azharite fatwa appears on 100-127 of this publication
8. On "feminism" and the problematic uses of this term in an Islamic context, cf., for instance, Azza M. Karam, "Women, Islamisms, and State," in Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation, ed. Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 18-28
9. Malika Zeghal, "Al-Azhar and Radical Islam," International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 31, no. 3 (August 1999), 371-99; the quote is from 386
10. This new approach is fully evident in his Qadayāt al-mar'ab bayn al-taqalid al-rakīdab wa'l-wafida (Beirut: Dar al-shuruq, June 1990, second printing September 1990, and frequently reprinted thereafter). A sort-of Internet Home Page of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali can be found on http://www.ims.uwindsor.ca/-azhar/BIOGRAPHY/SCHOLARS/Ghazali.html
11. Azhar web page: http://www.ims.uwindsor.ca/azhar/BIOGRAPHY/SCHOLARS/ Qaradwi.html
12. Qaradawi, Fatawa vol. II, 372-82
13. Fatawa, vol. II, 383-89
14. Ismail Ragi al-Faruqi, "Towards a New Methodology for Qur'anic Exegesis," in Islamic Studies (March 1962), 35-52
15. Cf. John L. Esposito, Women in Muslim Family Law (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982), 105-108
16. Amina Wadud (Muhsin), Qur'ān and Woman (Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Fajar Bakti Sdn., Bhd.,1992)
17. Muhammad Shahrur, al-Kitāb wa'l-Qur'ān: qira'ah mu'asirah (Beirut: Sharikat al-matbu'at lil-tawzi' wal-nashr, 1992)
18. on this book and its author, also cf. Dale F. Eickelman, "Islamic Liberalism Strikes Back," in MESA BULLETIN 27 (1993), 163-68
19. and Peter Clark, "Review Article: The Shahrur Phenomenon: a liberal Islamic voice from Syria," in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 7, no. 3 (1996), 337-41
20. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Mafhūm al-nass: dirasah fi 'ulūm al-Qur'ān (Beirut: al-Markaz al-thaqafi al-'arabi, 1990)
21. and Naqd al-kbitab al-dinī (Cairo:. Sina lil-nashr, second printing 1994)
22. On gender questions, cf. his al-Mar'ah fi kbitab al-azmah (Cairo: Dar al-nusus, 1994)
23. The Washington Post (April 14, 2000)
24. Malika Zaghal, "Al-Azhar and Radical Islam," 383