ABSTRACT

The main aim of this study is to compare prejudicial practices against women leaders with egalitarian Islamic guidelines and current efforts towards achieving gender equality. The study also aims to highlight and offer new readings of the Quranic guidelines that may reform gender prejudice against Muslim/Arab women leaders. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 14 women leaders, the results show that egalitarian Islamic efforts towards gender equality are in conflict with certain negative gender practices. This leads us to conclude (and theorize) that Islamic guidelines, as originally retrieved from the Quran, support gender equality and remedy prejudicial assessment against genders. This study contributes to the literature through offering a partial counterview that highlights an egalitarian reading of Islamic principles relating to women leaders. To our knowledge, this is the first endeavour that incorporates Muslim women leaders’ insights towards offering new readings of the Quranic guidelines on gender equality.

摘要

这项研究的主要目的是将具有平等主义伊斯兰准则的女性领导人的偏见做法与目前为实现性别平等所做的努力进行比较。该研究还旨在突出并提供对古兰经指南的新解读，该指南可能会改变对穆斯林/阿拉伯妇女领袖的性别偏见。根据对14位女性领导人的深入采访，结果表明，伊斯兰在争取性别平等方面的努力与某些负面的性别习俗相冲突。这使我们得出结论（并理论化），最初从《古兰经》中检索到的伊斯兰准则支持性别平等并纠正针对性别的偏见评估。这项研究通过提供部分反对意见，为文学做出了贡献，强调了对与女性领导人有关的伊斯兰原则的平等理解。