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The Rise of Islamic Feminism: Reading Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Bird Summons [Import]- Dozent/in
- Mahbub Alam, M.A.
- Angaben
- Übung
Rein Online
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien
Zeit: Mi 18:00 - 20:00; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- A wave of feminist sentiment is mounting among the Muslim women who are seeking to reclaim Islam and the Quran for themselves. Islamic feminism demands equal rights for Muslim women in social, economic and political spheres both in the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. Islamic feminist writers emphasize on religious spirituality and gender equality based on the Islamic religious scripts: the Quran and Hadith. They have taken up the task of reinventing feminism from Islamic perspective and are trying to emphasize on the mutual interest of narrowing the distance between Islam and Western feminism.
There is a misconception among many Muslim women that they must choose between being religious as well as submissive to men and being rebellious distancing themselves from their religion. Islamic feminist writers are firstly challenging this misconception and advocating that a Muslim woman can be religious and at the same time can enjoy equal rights as men in both Islamic and non-Islamic societies. Secondly, they are confronting the stereotypes of Muslim women especially in non-Islamic cultures where the Muslim women are often seen as the oppressed who must be liberated from their cultural and religious subjugation.
Leila Aboulela in her books shows a realistic picture of the lives of Muslim women and establishes the evidence of why Muslim women choose Islam over Western freedom. Aboulela speaks for all the Muslim women, openly stating that her religious identity surpasses her national and geographic loyalties with her religion offering more stability than any other affiliation. In The Translator and Bird Summons she places Islamic faith at the center of her narration emphasizing the nonpolitical aspects of the religion. Her characters are not submissive and oppressed but rather confident and in control of their lives.
In this course we will critically analyze The Translator and Bird Summons and discuss how Islamic feminism is contributing to change the stereotypes of Muslim women.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory reading:
Aboulela, Leila. Bird Summons. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
Aboulela, Leila. The Translator. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2008.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 4
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien / Centre for Interreligious Studies der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (ZIS)
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