Woman Empowerment in Islam and Contemporary Challenges
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Islam, Women, Empowerment, Feminism, GenderAbstract
The problem of women empowerment has become the centre of discussion between the secularism and Islam on the role and position of women in their respective societies. Liberal Islamists not only accept the empowerment of women but they promote it too with the use of the Muslim societies without critically examining the issue within the Islamic perspective. The empowerment of women has not been receptive to the Islamic scholarship. This work attempts to lay the groundwork on which the gap in the response in question may be bridged. In that respect, the provided work is based on a qualitative approach. It also resorts to second hand sources of information in analyzing the issue of women empowerment and criticize the important strategies that are employed to promote the same in a Muslim society. The paper then provides an Islamic analysis of women empowerment, and provides a conclusion on the additional action that should be taken.
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