Islamic Feminism(s) in the Mediterranean Area: a Hermeneutical Approach

Barbara Henry

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2017, vol. 19, issue 5, 464-482

Abstract: This article aims at questioning some conceptual assumptions which frame the current debate on Islamic feminism. Firstly, there is the assumption regarding the existing structural incompatibility between the Qur’an and women’s rights that needs to be tested by means of methodical hermeneutical tools. Secondly, the thesis affirming the uniqueness and univocity of the movement should also be questioned. The article argues that the syntagma ‘Islamic feminism’ should be approached as the ‘indicator’ of an extremely fluid, dynamic and pluralistic set of phenomena which has not yet assumed, and may never assume, its final conformation.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296254

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