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Article: Gender, Islam, and Politics.(Iran)
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- Social Research
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- June 22, 2000
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ISLAM and gender is a controversial problem for scholars and analysts of the Middle East. Unfortunately, the debate on this issue has at times become highly acrimonious and not always placed in its proper historical or sociological contexts (see AbuKhalil, 1993). From one point of view, Islam is praised for its historically liberating role for women in Arabia and elsewhere. Yet another perspective holds either the religion or some of its practices and practitioners accountable for the lower stares and inferior legal rights of women in Islamic countries than other parts of the world. Still other views fall somewhere in the middle of these two positions.
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