Islam : The Empowering of Women

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Islam: The Empowering of Women,
*[A5] Paperback - 72 pages,
by Aisha Bewley.

Back in Stock - February 2022

Book Description :

'' Reading historical sources throughout the centuries of Islamic history, we find lots and lots of women active in all areas of life, and then suddenly it stops. What happened?

How and why have things changed in the last three hundred years to the extent that it is unusual to find women involved in Islamic sciences and, unlike in the past, very few Muslim men would even consider being taught by a Muslim woman?

This is a phenomenon which requires in-depth research. It is time to re-examine the sources and re-assess how Muslim women in the past acted so that we can escape the limiting perspectives which have come to be the norm.

To this end, we will examine three perspectives: the Scholarly Woman, the Political Woman, and the Spiritual Woman. ''

Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley al-Maliki, al-Ash'ari, was born in 1948 in the United States. She holds a BA in French and MA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley. She spent a year with a fellowship at the American University in Cairo and at the same time attended a seminar on Sufism and Islamic philosophy at Dar al-’Ulum. She is a student of Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit, and also studied Ibn ‘Arabi with the late Sidi Fudul al-Hurawi in Fes, Morocco.

Aisha Bewley converted to Islam in 1968. She is the author and translator of many published and unpublished works, many of which are available at Madani Propagation. She is married to Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley with whom she often translates and is the mother of three children.

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