Islam, Feminism, and Islamic Feminism: Between Inadequacy and Inevitability

摘要: This essay argues for maintaining a critical space between two intellectual paradigms that inform Muslim women’s anticolonial equality struggles in the neocolonial present, Islam and feminism. Seedat distinguishes scholarly trends preclude convergence of feminism, argue necessary convergence, finally, those make no argument or against but “take granted” using feminist methods suited to various reform aspirations. The last group may consider their work natural continuation historical consciousness treatment women as redress absence sex Islam. article Islamic feminism appear be inevitable result yet it is also inadequate concerns Not only do some scholars resist naming but, an analytic construct, precludes new understandings difference originating non-Western cultural paradigms.