The incorporation of Western feminism in African writing and activism presents a challenge for theology and literary scholars. In Women in Arabic Literature in Nigeria, Katibi staunchly agrees that women have been marginalised and largely misrepresented in literary scholarship across cultures and religions over the past centuries. He also establishes that this marginalisation stemmed from the patriarchal structure of the world. This trajectory of male domination of the female gender he construes as a man’s design, not God’s. Contrary to the belief by some uninformed people about the stance of Islam on women’s rights, the author affirms that Islam favours “gender equity” over “gender equality” (p. 22). Admitting that Nigerian male literary writers in Arabic are “[…] not enthusiastic about women issues in their works […]” (p. 60), Katibi offers moderate Islamic feminism, the principles of which are sourced from the Qur’an and Hadith to women writers in Arabic literature in Nigeria. He proposes this “moderate Islamic feminism” (p. 26) as an alternative to all alien feminisms unwarily rehashed by African women to reverse the status quo or project women’s megalomaniac stance. Embracing this moderate Islamic feminism he believes will obviate the preponderance of a wide and widening gulf between the male and female creative contributions to Arabic literature in Nigeria (and Africa generally).

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书评：尼日利亚的阿拉伯文学中的妇女：问题，表达方式和分析（作为阿拉伯语的提要）

西方女性主义在非洲写作和行动主义中的融合，对神学和文学学者提出了挑战。在尼日利亚阿拉伯文学中的女性中，卡蒂比（Katibi）坚定地同意，在过去的几个世纪中，妇女在各种文化和宗教的文学研究中已被边缘化并被严重歪曲。他还确定，这种边缘化源自世界的父权制结构。他认为，男性统治女性的这种轨迹是男人的设计，而不是上帝的设计。与一些不了解情况的人相信伊斯兰对妇女权利的立场相反，作者断言伊斯兰比“性别平等”更偏爱“性别平等”（第22页）。卡提比承认尼日利亚的阿拉伯男性文学作家“ [...]对作品中的女性问题不热衷[...]”（第60页），所以卡提比提供了温和的伊斯兰女权主义，其原理来自古兰经和圣训尼日利亚阿拉伯文学女性作家。他提出了这种“适度的伊斯兰女权主义”（第26页），以替代非洲妇女为扭转现状或暗示妇女的大妄想立场而无意识地重新出现的所有外来女权主义。他认为，接受这种温和的伊斯兰女权主义将消除在尼日利亚（以及整个非洲）对阿拉伯文学的男性和女性创作贡献之间日益扩大的鸿沟。