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Soul of Islam Series - Number One - From Cairo to Cape Town: A brief history of Muslim feminism |
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Asialink's popular Islam series of lectures is back again this year with the first of seven lectures next Monday.
Marking the birth of modern feminism in the Muslim world, Huda Sha'rawi founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union, publicly removed her face-veil in Cairo in 1923. Seventy years later, Amina Wadud gave a historic pre-khutba talk in Cape Town before an audience of both men and women who had assembled for Friday prayers.
In this lecture, Rachel Woodlock will explore Muslim feminism in the twentieth century, looking at Western-inspired secular feminism, Islamist feminism and the gender-jihad of progressive Muslims. Rachel has a Masters of Islamic Studies and is currently researching Muslim settlement in Australia.
The Asia Education Foundation with the support of Asialink and the Islamic Council of Victoria presents this program.
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