Tutorial 7

What are the principal issues in a feminist interpretation of Islamic prophetic traditions?
Islamic feminism or woman's rights is representing equity to ladies as Islam stands for. It's an
instrument to remind individuals what Islam is for ladies. It's not more Islam or more women's
liberation. The term Islamic feminism is a thought of mindfulness lecturing that men and ladies have
equivalent rights focused around re-perusing the Quran, reevaluating the religious messages and
advising individuals to practice it. Some individuals, who do this for the feminism, don't call
themselves Islamic women's activists. They won't say it Islamic women's liberation. Some have clich
ideas about woman's rights, so they don't utilize. Muslim ladies have likewise contended that women's
liberation or feminism is a belief system significant just to the lives of Western well-to-do ladies, and
that actually for them it has just brought about making them into semi men or sex objects. They have
likewise called attention to that while Muslim ladies see their own particular most paramount parts to
be mother and wife women's activist belief system puts down the significance of these parts in its battle
against sex generalizations. The most evident marker of the battle against woman's rights by Muslim
ladies is hijab (the ordinances of unobtrusiveness in Islamic dress). While women's activists have taken
the scarf to be an image of their enslavement to men in Muslim social orders, the steadfast take it to be
an image of admiration and humility.
Jeenah, N. (2001) Towards an Islamic Feminist Hermeneutic, in Journal of Islamic Studies, 21.
Tutorial 8
Is it Muslim individuals/groups, or built environments/arrangements of space that make a city
Islamic?
Islam perceives that humanity can't live without social intercourse. Along these lines, it values social
connections so as to farthest point confinement of individuals from one another, and emphatically
supports social life on a more extensive or public scale. The essential explanations behind the
foundation and development of the conventional Islamic city are co-operation and closeness between
individuals which permits to make houses near one another and limitize the measure of the area pieces.
It likewise requires the social closeness to accomplish contacts inside strolling separation. Being a key
guideline of the social schema of Islam, social association and solidarity prompted the formation of
urban reduction in the neighborhood. To Islam, it is a right and obligation of the family to live encased
in its home. Keeping an acceptable division in the middle of private and open life is the most
noteworthy social normal for Islamic society. Hence, there is open air spatial chain of command,
avenues of utilitarian width, close or joined homes, and equivalent or relative dispersion of
Mosque.neither the Qur'an nor sunnah contains exact urban arranging codes that could be utilized

within arranging and outlining a Muslim nature. Then again, Islam, through its shari'ah, has given
standards that focus the lifestyle of Muslim groups andindividuals in the urban environment and thusly
nature's domain itself. Thus, it is Shar'iah that forces the muslims to create an obliged environment to
make a city islamic.
Henkel, H. (2007) The Location of Islam: Inhabiting Istanbul in a Muslim Way, in American
Ethnologist 34, 1.
Tutorial 9
Can a novel be non-ideological?
Yes a novel could be non-ideological yet it is just concerned with the delineation of political conditions
and doesnot expect to propogate any particular political qualities. These non-ideological works do have
monstrous imaginative objectivity. It there is a statement of certain political values in this novel than
they can be credited to individual political introductions instead of the craving to propagandize. In this
sort of books there is colossal danger of emerging the issues in recognizing political and verifiable
books. Regardless of the possibility that novel is composed about the contemporary political occasions
or current political identities, it may go under the mark "authentic" on the grounds that political
occasions and identities turn into the piece of history. An alternate contrast lies in the translation in light
of the fact that the understanding of political occasions can be viewed as preditive, however partical
projections might materialize. All the while chronicled writer's translation is more inclined to be
legitimization of occasions that have occurred. Then again it is very hard to characterize a political
novel in light of the fact that it is excessively slender and robotic to translate as one depicting a political
development or portraying political condition, for most social issues have political measurements.
Suleiman, S. (1983) Introduction to Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary
Genre. Columbia University Press, New York.
Cayir, K. (2007) Excerpt Islamic Politics of Literary Translation, from Islamic Literature in
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