Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation

Front matter

Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh

Changing Gender Norms in Islam between Reason and Revelation

Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation

Part One: 2 Towards a Theoretical Model for Changing Gender Norms

21 Religion in Sodology is seee itinere rnaen onnee aN 17 2.2 The Dialectical Relationship Between Religion and Human Being:

Pluralism, Rationality and the Crisis of Meaning... o.o aaa 26 2.5 Theoretical Approach to Analysing Changing Gender Norms

inthe Main Currents of Islam... 1... eee eee 46 4.1 An Overview on the History of Women’s Rights in lran ... 2.0.2.2... eee eee 61 4.2 The Emergence of CEDAW as a Global Norm of Gender Justice... 2.1.0... 0. eee eee 79 4.3 Women’s Rights in the Current Laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran

in Comparison with CEDAW .... oauan ce eee eee eens 87 5 Three Streams of Thought in the Near East and Iran

5.1 Women’s Position in Diverse Currents of Islamic and Secular Thought

in the Near East: the State of Research 2.0... eee eee eee 101 5.2 Some Aspects of the Historical Development of the Islamic Mu'tazili and:Ashiari Schools es ees rsen ra e doe deg, EEEE EEE EEE 108

Part Two: Changing Gender Norms in the Main Currents of Islamic thought in Iran

6.1 Religion as Structure... cc eee tee eee teen nens 6.4 Women’s Rights in the Fundamentalist Perspective... 1.0.0.0... cee eee eee eee

7 Gender Norms Between Revelation und Human Reason

7.3 Women’s Rights in the Reformist Perspective .... 0... 0... cece ee ee ee eee

8.2 Individual Agency ina Rational Reading of Islam .. 1.1.0.0... 00 ce eee eee

8.4 Women’s Rights in a Rational Reading of Islam ... 0.0.0.0... cc ee eee ee eee

9 Changing Gender Norms in the Dialectical Relationship

9.1 The Model for the Dialectical Relationship Between Religion,

9.3 Desert-Based Notion of Justice... ee ee eens

9.4 Justice Based on Individual Self-Determination Versus Desert-Based Justice. ce eee eee eee eee