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Title: Gender


1
Gender Religion
  • Islam

2
Theocracy
  • A form of government in which the divine power
    governs earthly human state through divine
    guidance. Allah via Muhammad.
  • Origin Greek the rule of God
  • Through religious representatives and scholars-
    clerics and institutions- mosques.

3
Muhammad and the Hijra
  • Social, economic, political and religious,
    tension between the Polytheists and the Islamic
    community
  • 615 CE exodus to Medina
  • Umma- community
  • Governed by principles from the Koran

4
Constitution of Medina
  • Legal in nature
  • Outlines civil duties,
  • interactions with other religious groups Jews,
  • and cooperative action against intruders.
  • No gender specific roles or laws

5
Koran
  • Man and woman same origin
  • Equally at fault for eating the apple
  • No temptation by the woman
  • Man and woman were created to find their deepest
    meaning in relations with one another.
  • The best of you is he who is best to his wife.
    Muhammad

6
Sharia
  • Legal frame work based on Muslim principles of
    jurisprudence.
  • Means way or path
  • Addresses politics, economics, banking, business
    law, contract law, sexuality, and social issues.

7
Women In the Sharia
  • Often interpreted that women can not hold
    prominent jobs.
  • A man can marry a woman of the people of the
    book- Torah or Koran. A woman can only marry a
    man if he converts to Islam

8
  • A woman's dress code more strict than a mans
  • Traditional penalties for adultery- stoning

9
Sharia cont
  • BUTNo mention of forbidding women the right to
    an education- ex Afghanistan.
  • In Iran 77 of University students are women.
  • Many woman professors as well

10
In the name of Islam?
  • The current laws are products of the ruling elite
    and Clerics of the time.
  • Ex Velayat-e-Faghih in Iran allows women to
    drive, hold jobs like police officers, government
    workers, and bank employees.
  • Whereas in Saudi Arabia under the rule of the
    Saudi Monarchy woman are not afforded any of the
    rights mentioned above.

11
Progressive Changes
  • Deterring the use of law to enforce religious
    beliefs and traditions.
  • Former President of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, at
    St. Andrews University, Scotland.
  • Optional to where veil- hijab
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