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Women, Muslim Society, and Islam

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Professor Lois Lamya al Faruqi taught at Butler University, the University of Pennsylvania, villanova University, and Temple University. She was killed in her home, along with her husband, on May 30, 1986.

Here are some quotations from the book:

"These women of early Islam were not veiled. They were enjoined by Islam to be proprietous, but they were never told to live lives of segregation and isolation. It is obvious from the following passage that the Qur'an enjoins on both men and women the same sense of modesty." (Pg. 9)

"What went wrong? What happened that made woman become ashamed of her sex, that made her retire to a position of weakness and subservience to the male in these later centuries of Islam? ... Whichever of these causes is responsible or whatever other causes combined to produce an unfavorable reversal of the Islamic advance in regard to the status of women, we know that by the late nineteenth century, her situation was in crying need of reform." (Pg. 14)

"Lectures of the Prophet were attended by audiences of both men and women; and by the time of the Prophet's death, there were many women scholars." (Pg.37)

"As an excuse for sexual promiscuity, the practice (of polygamy) is unconditionally condemned, but, if practiced accordiing to Islamic moral exhortations and legal provisions, Muslims regard polygyny as a more equitable and humane solution to certain situations than the unconditional demand for monogamy." (Pg. 68)