European muslims rethink sexuality and gender
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Ilga Europe Newsletter
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 4
- Creator
- Hamzic, Vanja
- Thesaurus
- islam, moslima's, gender, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, emancipatie, feminisme, Europa
- Description
- Sexuality and gender in the vast majority of Muslim scholarship (ulema) and the actual communities in Europe is still almost exclusively regarded from the angle of women's position in Islam, trying to challenge the common misconception that Islam is an inherently oppressive religion with regards to women. Islamic feminists themselves argued that it is the interpretations and cultural influences of the societies in which the religion spread that allowed for the current status for women in Islamic cultures today