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Women’s political rights have been a pressing issue in the contemporary world especially after universal suffrage became an inevitable distinction of modern polity. In this paper political rights are not peculiar to polity in its narrow sense, rather it discusses women’s presence and role in public life as whole and more particularly from Islamic perspective. This study is confined to legal and Shari’ah framework in terms of permissibility and impermissibility of women to participate in public sphere. The study investigates and examines the religious teachings from its original scriptures and their historical and contextual interpretations throughout the history including classical as well as modern literature. The study reviews interpretations and explanations of the Quranic verses and the Prophetic traditions. The differences are highlighted between original and scriptural discourse and historical and temporal thought. This paper employs qualitative study by collecting primary sources through library research. Then content analysis is applied to the interpretations from Islamic jurisprudence literature and historical works to analyze views of scholars and to identify those grounds and evidences of the opinions which belong to the fundamental sources of Shariah; the Quran and the Sunnah. Amongst the findings are, that there is a huge difference between immutable teachings and Islam and its principles and historical and human interpretations of the latter two. Historical and Human interpretations are subject to scrutiny. Islam opens up broad role for women in public sphere in general as well as in politics in particular which they should not be deprived of.
Mohammad Farid Ali Al-Fijawi, Zulqernain Haider Subhani, Mek Wok Binti Mahmud. (2020) Women’s Political Rights in Islam: A Review & Scrutiny of Arguments from Qur’ān and Sunnah by the Opponents and the Proponents, AFKĀR (Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies) , Volume 4, Issue 2.
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