In Shahrur’s lexicon, woman appears in Shahrur’s reading at the intersection of language, limits, equality, and critique of the inherited tradition, and through her the results of his method appear in questions of family, dress, and guardianship.
Meaning in Shahrur
Shahrur rejects burdening woman with the origin of sin or turning the female body into the center of religion and morality. He therefore links women’s issues to equality, dignity, and civil rights, and rereads dress, guardianship, and the family within custom, limits, and contract, not within a fixed inherited image.
Distinctions
- It is not reduced to dress, because the women’s file is also connected to family, guardianship, equality, and rights.
- It is not read as the origin of the first sin; for him, this is an intrusion from the Biblical narrative and Israelite traditions.
- It is not separate from guardianship and dress and marriage.
Foundational links
- The origin of accusing woman of sin
- Contemporary restrictions contradict equality
- Guardianship includes both man and woman
- The Muhammadan message establishes equality between the sexes
- Woman and man are equal, and conflicting restrictions must be revisited
- Woman, dress, and guardianship
- Family, contract, and kinship
Its place in the atlas
This page gathers what was distributed between dress, guardianship, and family, and opens the question of woman directly from the lexicon before moving to the paths of family and dress.
And in the human rights file, the page Woman and family within human rights reads woman from the perspective of equality, non-discrimination, consent, and authority within the family.