Articles of category "Islamic feminism"

For many people the two words "feminism and Islam" would seem quite incompatible. The following article focuses on a time when both of those words held importance to one specific group. It was a group composed of Californians, Californians who hoped to promote interfaith activities in the area. The reader is invited to pursue a look at how that group viewed two very different topics.

Islamic feminism is gradually finding an increasing number of takers in the Islamic world. The driving force behind the increasing popoualrity of Islamic feminism is the educated women folk among the Islamic society. Then there are the others who are educated in the west and want to integrate certain global feminist values into Islamic feminism. Till now heavily rooted in the teachings of the holy Quran, there are some significant changes in the direction Islamic feminism is taking now a days.