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A 4 page research paper/essay in which the writer argues that Islamic fundamentalism and women’s rights, as well as individual right sin general, are incompatible. To support this arguments the work of Azar Nafisi and Marjane Satrapi is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, can be maintained and guaranteed in light of Islamic doctrine on gender and the corresponding religious duties prescribed for each sex. An examination
of two works by Iranian women illustrates the incompatibility of legalized patriarchy, via religious perspective, and the expression of individual liberty. While Arab scholars, such as Fatima Mernissi
and others have attempted to formulate a feminist theology and "reinterpretation of Islamic texts," others, such as Hammed Shahidian, argue that such endeavors are futile when one considers the "strength
of conservative, orthodox, traditional and fundamentalist interpretations, laws and institutions" (Moghadam 1135). In other words, the fundamental question of this debate is: How can womens rights, or the right so
any individuals who differ with the prescribed doctrines of Islam, receive due consideration under societal institutions when simply differing with Islamic fundamentalist principles is considered heretical and therefore illegal? The
writing of Iranian female authors Azar Nafisi and Marjane Satrapi indicates that this is an impossibility. In her writing, Nafisi explains how women, as political and social beings in
their own right, have ceased to exist in Iran. Women are non-entities, according to Nafisi, in fundamentalist Islam, with no rights, no existence as fully-fledged human beings within the consciousness
of the state. They are always perceived in their relationship to men as defined by Islamic scripture. Within this social and political atmosphere, Nafisi explains how she picked a handful
of female students to invite into her home for a study of literature. The stated purpose of this group was "to read, discuss and respond to works of fiction"
(Nafisi 347). She explains to the girls how it is her objective that the "great works of imagination" that she selected will aid them in "our present trapped situation as
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