Islam considered the woman as a worthy human being, with a share in humanity equal to that of man. Both are two branches of a single tree and two children from the same father, Adam, and mother, Eve. Their single origin, their general human traits, their responsibility for the observation of religious duties with the consequent reward or punishment. Islam is a religion that gives full rights to all people; whether they are black or white, man or women more than this Islam honored woman .However, the roots of female subjugation in Islam do not lie in the Quran, Sunnah or in Islamic history, but in the conflict between women’s rights and the interests of the men. The concept “Islamic feminism” is of recent origins, used for the first time in the 1990s in the growing western literature on “women and Islam”. Islamic intellectual encounters with feminism date back to the early twentieth century. It is a feminist discourse and practice articulated within an Islamic paradigm. The term Islamic feminism is an idea of awareness preaching that men and women have equal rights based on re-reading the Quran, re-examining the religious texts and telling people to practice it .Islamic feminism speaks for justice to women as Islam stands for women and gave her full rights it is a tool to remind people what Islam is for women. The aim of Islamic Feminism is to recover and implement the fundamental objectives of Islam: social justice and the equality of all Muslims, including gender equality. There can be no social justice without gender equality. Islamic feminism is attentive to the rights Islam granted to women that have withheld from them in practice, as well as the rights of any others withheld because of class, race or ethnicity.
“The Islamic feminism consists of scholars and activists who are working to achieve gender equality and social justice within a religious, Islamic framework”.
Islamic feminism is about gender, about women and men: their relations and interactions, about gender justice and the struggle to attain it. Islamic feminism could be considered as one branch of feminism, as it calls for gender equality and is against patriarchal authority, The Islamic feminism consists of scholars and activists who are working to achieve gender equality and social justice within a religious, Islamic framework. They work and focus on poverty, illiteracy, sexual oppression, and dominance by men in Muslim societies. Islamic feminism neither defies religion nor follows the mainstream blindly. But the Islamic feminists are reinterpreting Islamic sources in order to achieve equal rights for women within an Islamic framework, though challenging the traditional interpretations of scripture and received notions of interpretive authority, both in Muslim majority societies as well as in the diasporic Islamic world. With their new interpretations they have contributed to the transformation of the legal, political and social rights of Muslim women. There are, however, also limitations to the feminist interpretations of scripture and their potential to deliver gender equality.
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