Qasim Amin

Qasim Amin (Arabic قاسم أمين ) (* 1863, † 1908) was an Egyptian jurist. His most famous works are " The liberation of women " ( Tahrir al- Mar `ah - 1899) and" The New Woman " (Al -Mar ` ah Al- Jadidah - 1901).

Amin was a pupil of the famous Egyptian reform theologian Muhammad Abduh ( 1849-1905 ). He is considered an important Muslim feminists of his time. Qasim Amin was not the first who wrote the emancipation of woman from a liberal point of view, but he was the best known and most effective. Preceded it was the Algerians Muhammad ibn Mustafa ibn al - Khawga, whose book al - Iktirath fi huquq al - inath ( " compliance with the concern for women's rights " ) in 1895 appeared four years before Qasim amine " liberation of women " and five years before his second book, "The new Woman ".

The transmitted into German of Oskar Rescher translation of " Women's liberation " was published in 1992 by the Real Verlag ( Würzburg) and Oros Verlag ( Old Mountain ). Amine liberal commitment was later used by men like Ali Abd continued Ar - Raziq, who in his major work, Al -Islam Wa Usul Al- Hukm ( "Islam and the basics of domination " - 1925) but mainly with the relationship between state and religion addressed in Islam.

Criticism

Leila Ahmed argues in her book Women and Gender in Islam that one Qasim Amin could be described as feminist not because it reproduces the colonial view of the superiority of Western or British culture essentially and wanted to replace Muslim misogyny by Western / Victorian misogyny.

Swell

  • Adams, Charles C. Islam and Modernism in Egypt. Russell & Russell, New York, 1968 ( 2nd Edition ). Page: 231-5.
  • Amin, Qasim: The liberation of women. Genuine publisher / Oros Verlag. Würzburg / Old Mountains, 1992.
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