Islam and Feminism

So she states that Islam is the most feminist religion, which is demonstrably false and academically inept.

GuestIslam is probably the most like feminist moros religion there is, like very much protective of...

Mohammed HijabYes. It is certainly Middle Eastern countries that are most well known for their feminism and freedom for women. It is...

Islam is actually incongruent with feminism as an ideology because Islam has another idea of what it means to be equitable or just between men and women than Western colonial imperial feminism, whose knowledge production was in the West and didn't actually consult women from any other part of the world. All the waves of feminism were a Western knowledge production.

Complementarity in Islam

Having said that, the main difference, the main crux of the difference between Islam and feminism, is that Islam is a complementary system. So we believe in a complementarity between men and women. We believe that equality and value does not mean identicality in roles, that there can be different roles.

Islam says in the Quran many times that a woman has to be obedient to the husband, that there's an authority. I mean, the Quran mentions... or obedience is not just mentioned, as many people think, in the Hadith. It's actually mentioned in the Quran itself in Chapter 4, verse number 34. And in fact, Chapter 4:34, it says that men have authority over women because of what Allah has given some that He hasn't given others. Some people have translated it as protectors and providers. But all of that, whether it's protectors, providers, or authoritative, any of those translations would be incommensurate with a feministic worldview.

So this insistence that Islam and feminism can be hand-in-hand is actually an academically inept, or otherwise defunct, insistence which can be proven false with just the easy plain reading of the Quranic text.