ISLAM-ELEVATION OF WOMEN’S STATUS pdf download

Islam-Elevation of Women’s Status

ISLAM-ELEVATION OF WOMEN’S STATUS

The author writes – In discussing this topic – since it appears to me that this is a mixed audience of Muslims and non-Muslims – I’d like to make my remarks and comments brief.

I will take no more than thirty to forty-five minutes, and then allow you an opportunity to ask your questions.

Perhaps the question-and-answer session might be more fruitful in addressing specific accusations, understandings or misunderstandings regarding the status of women in Islam.

 As we all know, in the world today, there are – for the overwhelming majority of humanity – basically two world views.

These two views are often in conflict – not only on the personal level where individual human beings are making choices, but also on the international level in terms of the debate over the authenticity and correctness of these two world views.

 The first world view, which I am sure most of us are aware of, is the Western liberal view.

A view which claims s to draw its roots from the Judeo-Christian tradition that probably, upon investigation, is more well rooted in the ideas that appeared after the reformation; ideas that are rooted in secularism and the world view that appeared thereafter during the ‘era of enlightenment’.