Women in Islam

“On the cultural level, women have not been treated as men’s equals. Such inequality has evolved as an artifact of the preferences and actions of patriarchal authorities (termed scripturalists here) after the Prophet’s death, including certain rulers and administrators, most jurists, and some intellectuals” (Hoffman-Ladd 323) No subject intrigues me more than the status of women in the more-so patriarchal society of the Islamic community. Women have always been lower than men in Islamic …

…husband. The wives had to hold the shame they felt because they had given birth to a baby girl, a burden, as seen in the Islamic societies. With all these hardships that women faced throughout Islamic history it is a wonder there are any women in Islam. It is however, in the Qu’ran that God does not distinguish between men and women. They are both responsible for their actions, not because of their gender.