The Status of Women in Islam.
Allia| N° d'inventaire | 23529 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 160 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791030413847 |
“This work focuses on the condition of women in Islamism. The singular existence imposed on Muslim women has long struck Europeans. Writers speak of them as 'disenchanted,' 'repudiated' by harem life; ethnographers depict ignorant, stupefied women, enslaved to the passions of men. European travelers who visited the Muslim East were all struck by this shocking condition of women. All could have said what Bonaparte said to his soldiers during his expedition to Egypt: 'The people among whom we are going treat women differently from us.' And, certainly, what is striking, first of all, in the condition of Muslim women is the seclusion imposed on them.”
It took obvious intellectual courage for Egyptian sociologist Mansour Fahmy to publish this study. A historical and scientific work based on rigorous scholarship, this book is not, however, a pamphlet. This did not prevent its author from being expelled from the University for having denounced a form of enslavement that persists to this day.
“This work focuses on the condition of women in Islamism. The singular existence imposed on Muslim women has long struck Europeans. Writers speak of them as 'disenchanted,' 'repudiated' by harem life; ethnographers depict ignorant, stupefied women, enslaved to the passions of men. European travelers who visited the Muslim East were all struck by this shocking condition of women. All could have said what Bonaparte said to his soldiers during his expedition to Egypt: 'The people among whom we are going treat women differently from us.' And, certainly, what is striking, first of all, in the condition of Muslim women is the seclusion imposed on them.”
It took obvious intellectual courage for Egyptian sociologist Mansour Fahmy to publish this study. A historical and scientific work based on rigorous scholarship, this book is not, however, a pamphlet. This did not prevent its author from being expelled from the University for having denounced a form of enslavement that persists to this day.