PSC 392 Chapter 1: IPT12Women-Baden
28 Aug 2016
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Women in the quran and the sunna by sally baden. Extrapolating conclusions about the position of women in islamic societies from an examination of the religious texts of islam is a simplistic and ahistorical approach. This said, the importance accorded to these texts in islam, particularly by contemporary islamist movements, means that much debate still revolves around interpretations of their statements on women"s spiritual and, more particularly, social role. Moreover, questions of sexual morality, marriage and family life, divorce, custody, inheritance and so on have a prominent place in the main texts of islam. 5 (mernissi (1991) is an example of this approach. ) Numerous passages can be found in the quran which underline the spiritual equality of men and women, and the duty of both men and women to meet the religious obligations of islam (see al-faruqi, 1988, for examples). However, the quran ascribes different social roles to men and women, as a consequence of their different natures (glasse, 1989).
