“o [Muhammad Abdu] was probably the first to make the argument, still made by Muslim feminists today, that it was Islam and not, as Europeans claimed, the West that first recognized the full and equal humanity of women. Abdu argued that the Quranic verse on the equal rewards of labor showed that “men and women are equal before God in the matter of reward, when they are equal in their works… There is therefore no difference between them in regard to humanity, and no superiority of one over the other in works.” WomenFeminismIslamReformWomen EmpowermentEgyptWomen S RightsQuran Book:Women and Gender in Islam Source: Women and Gender in Islam
“Anthropology, it has often been said, served as a handmaid to colonialism. Perhaps it must also be said, that feminism, or the ideas of feminism, served as its other handmaid.” FeminismColonialismWomen S RightsAnthropologyBritish ColonialismAnticolonialEypt Book:Women and Gender in Islam Source: Women and Gender in Islam
“o Like his teacher [Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani], Abdu was an ardent and committed religious thinker. He argued for the acquisition of “modern” sciences and for “modernisation”, for the promotion of widespread education, for reforms in the intellectual and social fields, and for the elevation of women’s status and changes in marriage practices, and he emphasized the importance of the need to throw off ignorance and misrepresentation of Islam that had accrued over the centuries.” WomenMarriageFeminismIslamReformEgypt Book:Women and Gender in Islam Source: Women and Gender in Islam