Please answer the three question with 200-250 words each question. please see the 4 attachments down below.
1. Based on Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam (pages: 1-37; 41-78)
Based on Ahmed’s chapters 1, 3, and 4: What were women’s status in
the Arabian Peninsula before Islam and the early Islamic period? How did
these norms and rights change with the arrival of Islam? What are some
of the factors that resulted in the decline of women’s status in Muslim
societies? Who are the Kharijis and Qarmatians? What is their
significance? What does their egalitarian position toward women tell us
about gender norms in the Muslim majority countries today? Please
compare and contrast Ahmed’s writing to Sarah Spellberg’s Battle of
Camel, what are some of the major similarities and differences?
2.
Based on Leila Ahmed Women and Gender in Islam: Chapter 6 Medieval Period (p. 102-123)
What are most of Ahmed’s primary sources in this chapter? What are
some of the limitations of Ahmed’s primary sources? Who are the authors?
What class of women do these writings typically include? What are some
of the female slave stories Ahmed incorporates in this chapter? What do
they tell us? Why does the author emphasize Muslim women’s ability to
inherit and own property in this period in the Middle East? What were
some of the female occupations in the medieval period? What kind of
access to education did women have? How did women within the Sufi
community differ from the rest of Muslim societies? Why is it
significant? What do Lady Montagu’s writings reveal about the Ottoman
harems? What do we learn from Suzanne Voilquin’s interaction with
Egyptian women in Cairo? Please compare and contrast Ahmed’s writing to Leslie Peirce Morality Tales. What are some of the major similarities and differences?
3.
Based on Qasim Amin’s The Liberation of Women and the New Woman and Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam (p. 144-168)
How does Ahmed explain European colonization’s impact on Muslim
majority countries and Middle East in particular? How did colonization
impact different classes, men, women? What is colonial feminism? (p.
151) What did veiling come to symbolize to Westerners who accessed the
region? (p. 152) What did it come to symbolize to Middle Eastern women?
How did colonizers like Cromer describe the Middle East and its people?
(p. 157) What about Middle Eastern women? What is Ahmed’s primary
criticism of Amin’s The Liberation of Women and the New Women? How did
Amin portray Egypt, Egyptians, and Egyptian women? (p. 161 &163)
Consequently, how does Ahmed explain and relate the outcomes of the
state emancipation campaigns in Iran and Afghanistan to colonization,
Western intervention? (p. 168)
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