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Fatima Mernissi

The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Women's Rights In Islam Paperback – December 21, 1992

by Fatima Mernissi (Author), Mary Jo Lakeland (Translator)

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Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.

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'Fatima Mernissi has more ideas per book than any other thinker in the Middle East. Her later works increasingly integrate her brilliant ideas into sustained and compelling discourse that is very much worthy of attention.'Laurence O. Michalak

About the Author

Fatema Mernissi teaches sociology at University Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. She is the author of more than eight books, including Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Scheherazade Goes West, The Veil and the Male Elite, and Beyond the Veil.

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Remainder edition (December 21, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201632217
ISBN-13: 978-0201632217
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #40 in Hadith
- #99 in Muhammed in Islam
- #130 in Women in Islam (Books)

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Leon Lam

A provocative book in the Muslim book. As a ...

August 28, 2016

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A provocative book in the Muslim book. As a major feminist Muslim, Fatima Mernissi gained international attention (and perhaps notoriety in some conservative places) after writing this classic. Some details may be challenging for non-Muslims but generally worth reading.

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Meghan Kaur Louve

Awesome book. Dr

April 7, 2017

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Awesome book. Dr. Mernissi, who is Moroccan, must have invested thousands of hours in her research for this book. It was a book recommended to me by my imam. It's a book for Muslim and non-Muslim women. Read it and understand what Muslim women have endured for 1400 years.

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Misbah Husein

Awesome work, and I can imagine it would have ...

November 17, 2017

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This line of research is what we really need in the Muslim world to challenge the mixing of age-old customs with Islam that is so common practice. Awesome work, and I can imagine it would have taken Dr. Mernissi a lot of efforts. I commend her courage to go against the mainstream mindset. There is just one bit which I find strange, of her referring to Islam as the religion Allah sent for Arabs! Everywhere, Quran calls itself guidance for all humankind and not just Arabs.

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Lee L.

setting the record straight

September 19, 2006

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The central thesis of this book is relatively straightforward. That is that the original intent and context of many parts of the Qur'an and teachings of the Prophet have been manipulated by those who have an interest in making women unequal in Islam. Mernissi contents that Islam was never meant to be anything other than a religion of equality, and that one must pay attention to the context of questionable verses and hadiths that have been invoked to subjugate women.

Methodologically, this work is quite rigorous. She makes very strong arguments and appears to back them up very well. However, the very nature of any relgion is that it can be manipulated to justify two completely opposing ideas. No one can definitively make the case that their way is THE right way. Mernissi herself admits as much herself on page 128 when she says "When it is a controversial verse that is at stake, everyone is going to choose and support the opinion that suits him best among the multiplicity of those that the fiqh accumulates.

In a way, it helps her case that she can admit what is such a fundamental point. Rather than insisting that hers is the only correct interpretation, she does what she can to make her argument and she makes it well. In the end, she's arguing for equality and that women are not to be second-class citizens. This is a commendable task. While I myself do not adhere to any religion, work such as this that is positive in nature is something that everyone should embrace.

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Tamara

The best book on Islam I've ever read.

April 30, 2005

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I have to reiterate: the reveiwers which condemn this book because they don't agree with it are crazy. If you buy one book on Islam, let this be it.

That said, Fatima Mernissa, a Muslim herself, has certainly left no stone unturned with her analyses of the Hadith's. This woman has done her reasearch. From explaining why it's not "un-Islamic" to check on the veritablness of a Hadith, to picking apart two Hadith's with a fine toothed comb, to explaining just why wearing a veil is not only unrequired by the Koran, but is unIslamic in itself, she covers just about everything in this book.

Having grown up in a Muslim family myself, I've obviously been subjected to the mindframe of your typical Muslim male - that women are inferior for, well, being women. It's the sole reason I renounced the religion at a young age. The rest of the females in my family remain Muslim, and with this book, I can finally explain to them just why it is that, as I had always suspected, the "words of God" have been twisted by men for their own agenda - mainly to remain the dominant gender in the Middle East.

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Adnan Khan

Five Stars

December 28, 2015

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Strong case for reading Muslim texts with an open mind towards equal rights for women.

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Dr. Homayoon Shidnia

Great. H.Sh.

December 5, 2014

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Excellent. H.Sh.

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Julian

this really informed me about the history of islam and ...

January 13, 2015

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this really informed me about the history of islam and the role of women from the start of times of Mohammed.

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