WOMEN IN MUSLIM HISTORY

Fatima Mernissi, Simorgh 1989

Fatima Mernissi’s paper on ‘Women in Muslim History – Traditional Perspective and New Strategies’focuses on the discrepancy between the very positive image of women in Muslim history and their equally low image in the contemporary Muslim world. The aim of this paper is to clarify the issue of women in Muslim history and tradition by providing some basic information about religious texts which have hitherto been suppressed by conservative mainstream historians.