"Islamic feminism: what's in a name?"Īs we have seen, Islamist movements deploy diverse methodological and practical processes to achieve their political aims.Īs we have seen, Islamist movements deploy diverse methodological and practical processes to achieve their political aims losophically, morally, or politically, that permit all unusual means to fulfill the real self. "'Islamic feminism means justice to women', The Milli Gazette, Vo. Progressive Muslims: on justice, gender and pluralism. here can be no progressive interpretation of Islam without gender justice" (2003a: 1. Omid Safi, who is acknowledged by some as the chief organiser of the 'Progressive Muslim' movement (Jones 2008: 224) asserts that. Progressive Muslims begin with the stance that the Muslim community cannot collectively strive for justice unless the equal rights of Muslim women are first guaranteed (Safi 2003a). Of female participation/leadership as well as the move to highlight women’s rightsĪs part of a broader engagement with human rights.Progressive Muslims begin with the stance that the Muslim community cannot collectively strive for justice unless the equal rights of Muslim women are first guaranteed (Safi 2003a).
One of theĭistinguishing features of the progressive Muslim movement has been the high level The destination of progress, and practice a simultaneous critique of both MuslimĮxtremist groups with that of colonialism and neocolonialism. Uniformly critical of the notion of a teleological modernity that posits the West as Progressive Muslim scholars and activists have sought to developĪ multiple critique with respect to both Islam and modernity.
That of figures such as Muhammad ʿAbduh, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Iqbal,Īnd Fazlur Rahman. Progressive Islam bothĬontinues and radically departs from the 150-year-old tradition of reformist Islam, Omid Safi, Kecia Ali, and Ziba Mir Hosseini, among others. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Farid Esack, Asma Barlas, Ebrahim Moosa, Abd al-Karim Soroush, The term “progressive Islam” generally refers to a movement that emerged during theġ990s that is associated with intellectuals and activists, such as Amina Wadud, Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).ĭate: Progressive Islam Source: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection Author(s): Omid SafiOmid Safi PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE ((c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2023.
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