تاريخ المرأة في الإسلام و النظريات النسوية منذ ستينيات القرن الماضي حتى العصر الحديث : دراسة تاريخية

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The study of women's history is regarded as one of the key disciplines in recent years.

Although many texts continue to shed insufficient light on the female experience, the close relationship between contemporary feminist theories and the historical practices connected to women tends to dominate the scene.

This paper outlines the various strategies for recording women's history in Islam from the 1960s to the present.

It also focuses on some innovative research approaches and concepts, as specialized academic reviews and analyses provide an invaluable platform for the successful execution of this pivotal task, which, in turn, contributes to the dissemination of knowledge in other fields as well.

Based on all of this, the current article has addressed two important questions : (1) What is the academic writing style that characterizes texts tackling the history of Muslim women, and how did researchers utilize it after being influenced by the feminist movement? (2) Have feminist theories and trends contributed to shattering disillusionment and to rewriting of the history of women in Islamic texts ? The methodology adopted in this paper is gender-based, as there is a connection between gender studies and the "history of women".

This connection has been developed as a reaction to the mainstream history that has been almost restricted to men, and which only reports on the outstanding events and achievements made by these men.

As a result, women's roles and their explicit or implicit events and achievements have been marginalized.

However, this study focuses on both the masculine and feminine writings of the history of women in Islam, and the interconnectedness between the concepts of ethnicity, class, and identity.

This is the main pillar for a genuine writing of history and for knowing the history of women, as being marginalized as a whole.

The study finds out several reasons that can account for this : knowing the history and status of the marginalized ethnicities, understanding cultures in connection to relevant authorities, and understanding the relationship between men and women, within the broader human-to-human context.

Therefore, all of this should be invested in effectively by understanding women's history without eliminating any marginalized group of the society by involving all its different categories from all walks of life, and by recognizing that the heritage that dominates the public awareness is far away from such gender-based approaches.

So, this dominance and its related thought control should be broken down, women should be re involved, and men's discourse should be dismantled as to re-narrate events, as the writing of women's history in Islam is nothing more than the writing of a new history through re-examining silent eras.