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Destroying the Idols of Western Modernity: Sirin Adlbi Sibai’s Decolonial Islamic Thinking

Helios F. Garcés, Investigador independiente, España

Islamic feminisms

Abstract: This paper intends to show Islamic feminism from its theoretical genesis through its development in the form of a transnational intellectual dynamics, addressing its recent political practices. The aim is to look into the wages and contributions of several Muslim feminist expressions in feminist thinking and action, as well as in contemporary Muslim reformist […]

“Hijab” in Fatima Mernissi’s work or the paradox of silencing. Towards Islamic decolonial thinking

Abstract: This paper deals with the Islamic veil affair in Fatima Mernissi’s work from decolonial theory and methodology. Also, responses from coloniality given by colonized subjects are sorted out, as a basis for analysis. The final aim is to build decolonial Islamic thinking. Keywords: Hijab/Islamic veil, Mernissi, decolonial Islamic thinking, Muslim women, feminism, Islam.

Muslim women’s veil (hijab): between colonialist ideology and Islamic discourse: a decolonial view

Abstract: The debate on Muslim women’s veil (hijab) has always been central in contemporary feminist discussion, and therefore it embodies the core of the conflict between two antinomic views: the one in neo-orientalist and hegemonic neo-western discourse, and a certain majoritarian traditionalist Islamic discourse. For some, it embodies patriarchal oppression while for others it is […]

Illusions and Sufferings of Emigration. The Case of Levantine Arabic, Muslim Immigrants to Chile 1930-1950

Jorge Araneda Tapia, Universidad de Chile