Assignment on Islam and Gender

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Added on 2020-05-16

Assignment on Islam and Gender

Added on 2020-05-16

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Running head: ISLAM AND GENDERIslam and genderName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

ISLAM AND GENDER1Table of ContentsQ1. Problem:..............................................................................................................................2Q2. Solution:..............................................................................................................................2Q3. Challenges:..........................................................................................................................3References..................................................................................................................................5

ISLAM AND GENDER2Q1. Problem:The author focuses attention on the specific Quran verse Q4:34(Ali, 2015), and themajor problems women face in the community that enables patriarchy to regulate them in thename of “Islamic Tradition” (Chaudhry, 2013). Some of the major problems include anenlightening and painful process that includes, balancing in conflicting demands thatoriginated from embodying multiple identities of Muslim. Besides, the author faced a hurdleto comply with the vision of womanhood that was introduced by man-centric religiouspioneers in the country where gender egalitarianism has a value. Chapter 4, verse 34 of theQuran describes the catalogs of the relationship among men and women, behavior of a goodand bad women and advice for husband how to discipline and rectify their behaviors (Ali,2015). The disturbing fact of the verse further depicts the authority of men over women andallowance of husbands to hit their wives which is a big problem towards the society. Thisverse further highlights the point that Muslim does not believe in gender equality and theMuslim women are expected to be obedient to their men. According to the author women inMuslim communities justifies the violence against them based on the verse of Quran(Charsley & Liversage, 2015). The author further states that women in communities sufferfrom the guilt feeling and a feeling of sin to call the cops or authorities as they feel it wouldincur God’s wrath and choose to stay back in abusive wedlocks, creating an issue andproblem for themselves only.Q2. Solution:Solution to the contemporary practice of Islamic Tradition from both the pre-and post-colonial era needs realization and further global development. No books and articles cancompel to change anyone’s attitude towards the topic of marital violence that is beingpracticed in the name of Muslim intellectual tradition. The complexity and diversity of the

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