Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Wisdom, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran; Instructor of Advanced Levels at the Seminary of Khorasan, Iran
Abstract
The emerging movement advocating for women's rights in Islamic societies offers solutions to achieve gender equality that are derived from their notions of religion as the most important element of culture in Islamic society. Understanding and testing these notions from the perspective of Muslim thinkers seems necessary for a correct encounter with this phenomenon and for achieving the truth. Accordingly, the present study, using a descriptive-analytical method and a critical approach, analyzes the different interpretations of one of the branches of this movement - religious reformism - from Islamic teachings, and then evaluates the notions extracted from this reading from the perspective of some Muslim philosophers. In their discourse, the reformist movement seeks a new reading in the field of verses, traditions, and traditional jurisprudence to establish gender justice, and in this path, new understandings of Islamic teachings have been formed in their minds, such as considering justice as customary and relative, limiting the intervention of religion in society, the absence of fixed rules in the religion of Islam, relativizing ijtihad, separating the Qur'an from the Sunnah, historicizing the Qur'an, and the necessity of a feminine interpretation of the Qur'an. After testing these notions with the views of some Muslim philosophers, it became clear that most of these notions, in addition to being incompatible with the spirit of Islamic teachings, are even in conflict with some of the principles accepted by this movement.
salehi, J. and Vatandoust, M. A. (2026). Analytical Evaluation of the Notions of the Reformist Movement Advocating Women's Rights in Islamic Societies. Islamic researches of women and family, (), -.
MLA
salehi, J. , and Vatandoust, M. A. . "Analytical Evaluation of the Notions of the Reformist Movement Advocating Women's Rights in Islamic Societies", Islamic researches of women and family, , , 2026, -.
HARVARD
salehi, J., Vatandoust, M. A. (2026). 'Analytical Evaluation of the Notions of the Reformist Movement Advocating Women's Rights in Islamic Societies', Islamic researches of women and family, (), pp. -.
CHICAGO
J. salehi and M. A. Vatandoust, "Analytical Evaluation of the Notions of the Reformist Movement Advocating Women's Rights in Islamic Societies," Islamic researches of women and family, (2026): -,
VANCOUVER
salehi, J., Vatandoust, M. A. Analytical Evaluation of the Notions of the Reformist Movement Advocating Women's Rights in Islamic Societies. Islamic researches of women and family, 2026; (): -.
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