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Religion in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Salime's notion of the entanglement and interdependant trajectories of the feminist & Islamist movements in Morocco
Last century was spent fighting for human rights. Zakia Salime was among those who joined movements for women rights in middle east. She discusses how decades of fights over widening the expression and rights transformed Moroccan feminism and Islamism. She is active in feminist movement since 1990s. She wrote extensively on Moroccan feminism highlighting that here was not enough research on the topic already. There had been serious influence on feminism in Middle East and the efforts led to development of a clear gender policy. She showed light on how Islamist women influenced public representations of feminism and the rights of women (Salime, 2011). In her book "Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco" she defies approaches causing pressure on division of the women's movements on the lines of religion and secular parameters.
feminist & Islamist movements in Morocco
Morocco was a stage for discussion of making projects democratized during 1980's and...
Zakia puts light on how the reforms were resisted by women beleiving in political Islamic movement. She says that there is a critical tie between conceptual margins of feminist and Islamist politics in the country. She involved in feminist movement two decades ago and found a new dimension to women rights without entering into debate of side-lining of women in political Islam. She did deep analysis of how the two movements are heading towards common destiny proceeding in the directions of their own philiosophies.
Interdependent Trajectories
Zakia does not traditionally focus how the secular and Islamict movements undercut each other rathe she believes the two movements are mutually influential. She does not believe that the movement scan be polarised on the basis of the ideologies they follow rather there is interaction and interdependence between the two movements that helped bring positive changes in Moroccan feminism.
She focused on the interdependent trajectories of women rights movements. She found how the women rights movements were affected and did affect Islamist women's involvement.…
References
Sadeghi, F., (2011), "By passing Islamism and Feminism: Women's Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran', Retrieved from: http://remmm.revues.org/6936
Salime, Z., (2011), "New Texts Out Now: Zakia Salime, Between Feminism and Islam: Human
Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco" Retrieved from: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3341/
Salime, Z., (2012). "A New Feminism? Gender Dynamics in Morocco's February 20th
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