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Women's Status In Early Islam

Women’s Status in Early Islam

The main objective of monotheistic religions is to emphasize the importance of faith in God and its existence. However, most religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam introduced many rules and practices in order to make people lead a proper life. In their articles, Leila Ahmed and Barbara Freyer Stowasser discuss one of the most critical of these issues, the changing status of women in Islam. In order to understand their arguments, we should first take it into account that the writers differ in their approaches. Ahmed approaches the subject in a historical context by analyzing the effects of Islam to the daily lives of women along with the most significant events of the time and the way the religion was practiced whereas Stowasser mostly focuses on textual evidence such as the Koran itself and the early Islamic Traditions, Haddiths. As one will see throughout this essay, Islam as described in Koran is quite dissimilar to the Islam practiced by...

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