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Women & Divorce in Islam Culture

The purpose of this research is to examine the position of women regarding divorce in Islam culture. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context in which the condition or fate of women in divorce is given special treatment in Islam, and then to discuss controversies surrounding women's position in Islam, whether it is considered a culture or a religion or a combination.

Any meaningful discussion of the status, history, or future of women in regard to the issue of divorce in Islam must include the background of the Islamic world view. In its most forceful articulation, Muslim Weltanschauung entails the subsumption of individual wants or needs by ideological-doctrinal Islam. Just as Marxist utopianism is projected as superior to and critical of prevailing conditions of human experience, wherein the supposed freedom of bourgeois liberal culture to be illusory, so Islam is held to be at once superior to and a critique of non-Islamic ideology or doctrine. Campbell cites Islam's claim to be the "ultimate formulation" (421) of Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian heritage in the Middle East. One aspect of this is Islam's presumed classlessness. Another aspect of it is Islam's claim to universality. But above all is the totality of ideology and experience articulated once for all time and immutably in the sharia, or divinely inspired law that has remained unchanged from the earliest period of Islam teaching to the present (Campbell 434-5).

The institutional character of polygamy, slavery, and the harem in the venues of Muslim history argues the presumption of inferior status for women. Though there is ample evidence of oppression of women in Western culture, the status of women in Islam is noteworthy because women's institutionally sanctioned inferiority as a matter of what could be called cultural policy has survived or even been reinvigorated in Islamic countries in the modern period, in the face of progressive...

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