Inside the gender Jihad by Amina Wadud

Inside the gender Jihad by Amina Wadud

Inside the Gender Jihad argues the necessity for women’s equality in Islam. Amina Wadud is a famous scholar and one of the founders in the Modern Women’s Islamic Movement. This book attempts to interpret the Quran and Islamic practices to encourage gender equality in Islam and redefine a Muslim woman’s role as more than simply for domestic purposes and child bearing. Wadud gives insight from personal relationship with Allah as a devoted Muslim, her academic research throughout the world over the course of thirty years, as well as her own personal experiences as an African American Muslim in the United States. The author states “the relationship between theory and practice, and between Islamic ideas, ideals, goals and the historical development of shari’ah all bear some effect on efforts to construct gender equal Islamic reforms.”
The book is well organized and structured by giving various examples of the “gender jihad” in the the Quran and the need for it to be reinterpreted and refined to stay relevant and what it mean to be a Muslim woman in the post colonial globalized world. Her topic is extremely important and necessary in telling about the lives of Muslim women especially in the United States.
Inside the Gender Jihad can be read by just about anyone; however it is difficult to understand her intentions and some of her explanations without basic knowledge of Islam and the Quran itself. I found certain parts of the book were complicated and had to do some research of the Quran and Islamic terminology in order to fully understand her progressive Islamic philosophy. Amina Wadud is articulate and extremely knowledgeable in Inside the Gender Jihad and her goals are easily defined and achieved. She believes “The Quran adapts to the context of the modern woman as smoothly as it adapted to the original Muslim community fourteen centuries ago.” The book leaves the reader with a better understanding of life as an Islamic woman and helps break down stereotypes of oppression of Muslim women in society. Wadud states in Inside the Gender Jihad, “Ultimately, women and men who are interested in the future development of Islam as a system of social justice must act in accordance with that interest and remove authority from those who seek to prevent the manifestation of Islam as a system intended for the fullest realization of human potential”

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