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Saatchi, Soraya (Layla).

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Ijtihad: Individual reasoning and the empowerment of women.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ijtihad: Individual reasoning and the empowerment of women./
Author:	Saatchi, Soraya (Layla).
Description:	78 p.
Notes:	Adviser: May Seikaly.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-02.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1446884
ISBN:	9780549189268

Ijtihad: Individual reasoning and the empowerment of women.
Saatchi, Soraya (Layla).

Ijtihad: Individual reasoning and the empowerment of women. - 78 p.

Adviser: May Seikaly.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wayne State University, 2007.

The subject of women in Islam is an emerging area of study that has only taken shape in the last decade. Muslim women's studies go beyond existing academic disciplines and involve, but are not limited to, scholarly works on law, religion, gender and history, challenging existing received wisdom on these subjects. Within this burgeoning area of study and inquiry, Muslim-American women academics have emerged as both the subject and researcher. Their dual role simultaneously gives them the advantage of first-hand knowledge of their subject and the benefits of academic training and inquiry. This insider/outsider combined status, although not exclusive to these Muslim women, has led Gisela Webb to refer to their work as scholarship-activism. The following research is not meant as a critique of the methodologies employed by these women, but rather as an analysis of their work, in particular their use of ijtihad, which is in congruence with a greater Islamic rationalist revival stemming from the modern historical period of the mid-19th century.

ISBN: 9780549189268Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

Ijtihad: Individual reasoning and the empowerment of women.
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520 $a To date, the academic publications of Muslim-American women have been read and analyzed separately from existing Islamic modernists and post-modernists such as Fazlur Rahman, Muhammad Arkoun, and Khaled Abou El Fadl even though their theories calling for a revival of ijtihad in Islamic exegesis and law figure prominently in the published works of these women. This isolation has often relegated them to a position of renegade or vagrant innovator, severely limiting their perceived legitimacy and scope of readership. Muslim-American women scholars are, however, building upon an existing tradition calling for ongoing independent re-interpretations of Islam.
520 $a Muslim-American women scholar-activists are engaging in an epistemological analysis of the methodology, scope, and validity of individualized, private Islam. Their work marks the beginning of an exegetical tradition that is not unlike that of preceding Islamic modernists, but significantly differs in two ways: First, these women explicitly address their Western context and changing socio-political contexts generally as the reason for ongoing ijtihad. Second, ijtihad represents an Islamically legitimate method, by which to empower themselves in a male-dominated faith tradition.
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