Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam

<p dir="ltr">Like other human rights treatises, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has elicited moral-religious responses from both state and non-state actors, especially in predominantly Muslim societies. The reactions are divided,...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Basma I. Abdelgafar (17962992) (author)
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Gender studies
Policy and administration
Sociology
Law and legal studies
Commercial law
Philosophy and religious studies
Religious studies
Women empowerment
Islamic perspective
Sharī’ah
Fiqh
CEDAW
New maqasid methodology
Equality
Policy
Governance
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spelling Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in IslamBasma I. Abdelgafar (17962992)Human societyGender studiesPolicy and administrationSociologyLaw and legal studiesCommercial lawPhilosophy and religious studiesReligious studiesWomen empowermentIslamic perspectiveSharī’ahFiqhCEDAWNew maqasid methodologyEqualityPolicyGovernance<p dir="ltr">Like other human rights treatises, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has elicited moral-religious responses from both state and non-state actors, especially in predominantly Muslim societies. The reactions are divided, with supporters and opponents using selective traditional arguments. This paper suggests that the Islamic response lacks a comprehensive approach and is fragmented, relying on partialistic views of the Shariah and offers to adopt a new maqasid methodology (NMM) to examine the status and rights of women in Islam. The paper challenges the focus on inequality as the main cause of injustice and argues that empowering women involves recognizing their relationship with their Creator as well as their relationships to their own selves, other individuals and groups, and all other creatures. The dominance of two policy positions (full acceptance or acceptance with reservations) that assume or neglect these deeper issues is inadequate and does not reflect the potential of an Islamic perspective. The Islamic perspective has yet to be fully explored and cannot endorse positions that view women in conflict with men or that are based on false premises.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Women's Empowerment and Public Policy in the Arab Gulf States : Exploring Challenges and Opportunities<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See chapter on publisher's website: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6006-4_3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6006-4_3</a></p>2023-12-23T00:00:00ZTextChapterinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext10.1007/978-981-99-6006-4_3https://figshare.com/articles/chapter/Re-envisioning_Women_s_Empowerment_A_Maqasid_Approach_to_Understanding_Women_s_Status_and_Rights_in_Islam/25217768CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/252177682023-12-23T00:00:00Z
spellingShingle Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
Basma I. Abdelgafar (17962992)
Human society
Gender studies
Policy and administration
Sociology
Law and legal studies
Commercial law
Philosophy and religious studies
Religious studies
Women empowerment
Islamic perspective
Sharī’ah
Fiqh
CEDAW
New maqasid methodology
Equality
Policy
Governance
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title Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
title_full Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
title_fullStr Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
title_full_unstemmed Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
title_short Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
title_sort Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
topic Human society
Gender studies
Policy and administration
Sociology
Law and legal studies
Commercial law
Philosophy and religious studies
Religious studies
Women empowerment
Islamic perspective
Sharī’ah
Fiqh
CEDAW
New maqasid methodology
Equality
Policy
Governance