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[1] [2] In the book, Abdul Karim Zaidan takes a stand against both feminism and gender inequality, while summarizing how women have an extremely important role in Islam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The author includes Hadith and opinions from all the four schools of Islamic thought to support his views with evidence.
Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam is a book by Akram Nadwi, originally published in 2007. This work serves as an English introduction to his Arabic publication, Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, which consists of 43 volumes and focuses on the biographies of women scholars of hadith. Nadwi worked in this field of research for 15 years.
The Quran, the holy book of Islam, indicates that both men and women are spiritually equal. The Quran states: The Quran states: "Those who do good, whether male or female, and have faith will enter Paradise and will never be wronged; even as much as the speck on a date stone."
Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa (Arabic: الوفاء بأسماء النساء, romanized: al-wafāʿ bi-ʿasmāʿ an-nisāʿ, lit. 'Loyalty with the Names of Women') is a 43-volume Arabic biographical compendium that documents the lives of women who participated in the narration of hadiths or played crucial roles in their dissemination.
Founder of Women In Islam, Inc. Aisha al-Adawiya , also known as Sister Aisha , is an interfaith-based activist and founder of Women in Islam, an organization that advocates for Islamic women . She worked for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for over 30 years.
A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [15] 39:6 [16] and elsewhere). [17]
EWIC challenges the misrepresentation of women in Islamic societies and Muslim women around the world by publishing rigorous, original evidence-based research that is historically and culturally situated, and making it all available as an accessible digital resource. [6]
Mernissi argued in her book The Veil and the Male Elite that the suppression of women's rights in Islamic societies is the result of political motivation and its consequent manipulative interpretation of hadith, which runs counter to the egalitarian Islamic community of men and women envisioned by Muhammad. [38]