النساء المسلمات في المجتمعات الغربية : التغيرات المعاصرة في السمات الدعوية

Abstract EN

This paper deals with Muslim women in Western societies as a category bearing unique and distinctive features, The research problem is to study changes in characteristics of Muslim women in Western societies, and to identify the reasons why these women convert to Islam in recent times.

The research aims to achieve a number of goals, among them is to identify characteristics of personal and social development for Muslim women in Western societies, to study the change in these characteristics compared to previous generations of Muslim women in those communities, and to focus on the importance of accommodating these changes by people concerned with Da'awah in the development of curricula and methods directed to these women.

The research found a set of findings and recommendations, including: Muslim women in Western societies represent an independent group for Da'wah efforts, requiring attention and appropriate programs, Thus all Da'wah efforts must Note cultural characteristics and social development of this segment, these women's desire to integrate into Western society while retaining Islamic identity at the same time.

There are a number of contemporary issues which concern women in Western societies, these issues could be addressed from the Islamic point of view, With emphasis on continuing to deliver correct picture about the Islamic religion for women in Western societies, particularly in the area of Islamic teachings about family, honoring parents, ties of kinship, and social solidarity , opics that draws the attention of women in Western societies in general, especially in view of the current disintegration, interruption of kinship and social bonds, and dwindling size of families in Western society.

It is very necessary in this area to differ the approach used to address Muslim woman in West in the past, who was a housewife with modest education, used to live in her house and the family surrounded by a strange community, from the approach used to address the Muslim women in the West today, that educated woman who lives in her own country and enjoys all the rights and obligations.

Paying more attention and proper planning for Da'wah efforts aimed at Muslim women in Western societies would make a big difference in the path of the Islamic Da'wah on one hand, and in the lives of these women on the other hand, strengthen their attachment to Islam the religion they choose, so they become the new voice of Da'wah in their communities and countries.