ARABIC- MUSLIM WOMEN AND THEIR ROLE IN REFORMING SOCIETY IN THE PROPHET'S ERA (THE ERA OF MAKKAH AND MADINA)

The whole world, the Muslim in particular has witnessed conflicts in different areas, which have hindered the developmental efforts of the nations concerned. It should be learned that most victims of these conflicts are women and children. This article attempts to elaborate the role of Muslims Women as a crucial segment in civil society in initiating peace building through nurturing process. It maintains that the adoption of the principles and values derived from the Qur’ān and Sunnah of the Prophet is necessary as a process of lifelong learning. Those identified values constituted the framework of this article and it adopts the textual analysis method. This article concludes that through the implementation of those values and frameworks for peace building, women as one of the important segments of civil society are able to play significant role towards initiating peace building and promoting peaceful co-existence in pluralistic society. Abstrak: Dunia Islam khususnya telah menyaksikan konflik di pelbagai daerah yang berbeza. Konflik ini telah menghalang usaha kearah pembangunan Kawasan yang berkenaan. Kebanyakan mangsa konflik ini adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak. Artikel ini cuba untuk menghuraikan peranan wanita Islam sebagai segmen penting dalam masyarakat madani dalam membangun proses kedamaian dengan mendidik dan memupuk prinsip dan nilai murni janaan al-Qur’an. Penggunaan prinsip dan nilai yang dikutip dari ayat-ayat Qur'an dan hadis Rasulullah adalah keperluan yang mendesak sebagai wadah bagi proses pembelajaran sepanjang hayat. Nilai-nilai yang dikenal pasti merupakan rangka kerja artikel ini, dan metod yang dirujuk adalah analisis teks. Artikel ini menyimpulkan bahawa melalui pelaksanaan nilai-nilai dan kerangka kerja Islam bagi proses kedamaian, wanita Islam dalam masyarakat madani mampu memainkan peranan penting dalam memulakan pembinaan keamanan dan menggalakkan kehidupan yang harmonis, sejahtera dan saling bantu membantu dalam masyarakat majmuk.

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Compressed Identity

Comparative Islamic Studies ◽

10.1558/cis.34855 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2) ◽

pp. 13-35

Author(s):

H. Şule Albayrak

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Civil Service ◽

Muslim Women ◽

The Self ◽

Political Rights ◽

The Public ◽

Economic Issues ◽

Turkish State ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Depth Interviews

For decades the authoritarian secularist policies of the Turkish state, by imposing a headscarf ban at universities and in the civil service, excluded practising Muslim women from the public sphere until the reforms following 2010. However, Muslim women had continued to seek ways to increase their knowledge and improve their intellectual levels, not only as individuals, but also by establishing civil associations. As a result, a group of intellectual women has emerged who are not only educated in political, social, and economic issues, but who are also determined to attain their socio-economic and political rights. Those new actors in the Turkish public sphere are, however, concerned with being labeled as either “feminist,” “fundamentalist” or “Islamist.” This article therefore analyzes the distance between the self-identifications of intellectual Muslim women and certain classifications imposed on them. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with thirteen Turkish intellectual Muslim women were carried out which reveal that they reject and critique overly facile labels due to their negative connotations while offering more complex insights into their perspectives on Muslim women, authority, and identity.

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When Beruriah Met Aisha

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v39i1.006 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 22-24

Author(s):

Shari Golberg

Keyword(s):

Muslim Women ◽

Legal Reform ◽

Textual Studies ◽

Religious Law ◽

Legal Texts

My dissertation attends to the complex and very fraught relationship that women have with their sacred scriptures by examining overlapping conceptions of religious law and legal reform among Jewish and Muslim women who actively study and interpret traditional texts. My project hopes to address what it is that animates Muslim and Jewish women’s interests in textual studies and how close engagement with religious legal texts might contribute to their development as particularized religious subjects.

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Embodying the Field

Fieldwork in Religion ◽

10.1558/firn.v8i1.27 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 27-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nina Hoel

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

South African ◽

Muslim Women ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Research Experience ◽

Research Relationships ◽

Embodied Practice

This article focuses on the various ways in which research relationships evolve and are negotiated by paying particular attention to the embodied nature of ethnographic research. By drawing on my own research experience of interviewing South African Muslim women about sexual dynamics, I critically engage debates concerning power dynamics in research relationships as well as researcher positionality. I argue that researchers should pay increasing attention to the multiple ways in which doing research always is an embodied practice. I present three case studies that highlight the complex ways in which research encounters speak to notions of intimacy, vulnerability and affect. In this way I argue that research encounters forge primary human relationalities that are marked by moments of convergence, conflict and despondency.

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Tertiary Educated Muslim Women's Work Decision

Journal of Emerging Economies and Islamic Research ◽

10.24191/jeeir.v3i2.9057 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 46

Author(s):

Peck Leong Tan ◽

Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusair ◽

Norlida Abdul Hamid

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Work Environment ◽

Capital Investment ◽

Labour Force ◽

Muslim Women ◽

Participation Of Women ◽

Flexible Working ◽

Family Friendly ◽

The Family ◽

Labour Participation

The participation of women in the labour force has been steadily rising over the years, especially with tremendous human capital investment in educating more women at tertiary levels. However, the tertiary educated women labour participation remains low, particularly among Muslim women. Therefore, this paper explores how tertiary educated Muslim women make their decision to work. This study surveyed 139 tertiary educated women and found their decisions to work are affected by their families’ needs and/or responsibilities, and may not be due to their lives’ goals and dreams. The majority of them work for the sake of money and hence will work if offered jobs meet their expectations in term of salary and position. Furthermore, they will leave the workforce if they need to fulfil their responsibilities at home. Therefore, to retain or to encourage more women especially those with high qualifications to be in the labour market, stakeholders must provide family-friendly jobs and suitable work environment such as flexible working arrangements. More importantly, stakeholders must be able to convince the family members of tertiary educated women to release them to the labour market.

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