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April 13

Nisaism, any sources from non English languages?

Greetings,

One finds only handful of mentions of the term 'Nisaism or Nisa'ism' in google searches. Any sources from other languages?

Relationship of women's rights in Islam is complex. As WP article Feminism in Pakistan informs (without citation) '.. The word Nisaism comes from Surah Nisa, a chapter of Qur'an, ..'. It is basically seeking Muslim women's right to fair treatment referring to Islamic scripture. The urban dictionary states ' .. Nisaism is an ideology, a political framework and a social movement aimed at providing gender equity as prescribed and commanded by Islam.' Here equity does not mean equality but just fair treatment as assured by traditionalist interpretations, (to which feminist would object as patriarchal interpretations).

Islamic feminism too would claim rights from Surah Nisa and rest of Islamic scriptures but they would demand maximum possible equality and just not limited to fair treatment and limited sense of the equity. Islamic feminist reinterpret Islamic scriptures rejecting traditionalist interpretations as patriarchal undermining their due right to equality claiming to be provided for by scriptures.

So both diverging interpretations may rest their claim to the term 'Nisaism' and it can become vague / confusing / complex.

Source in English language : Dale, M. (2016). Shifting Allegiances: Networks of Kinship and of Faith : the Women's Program in a Syrian Mosque. United States: Wipf & Stock.

At least in English sources discussing this term and complexity seem to be very few, so are their any sources discussing this term and complexity in non English sources specially from languages spoken in Muslim World also any discourse from Musawah, if any.

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 07:01, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The book Shifting Allegiances is quoting Fatima Mernissi's 1996 book Women's Rebellion & Islamic Memory (pp. 106–107). Mernissi was Moroccan, and her use of the term reflects her personal view on women's liberation rather than an attempt to define the term. The sense of the term as a traditionalist form of feminism informed by the Qur'an, positioned between patriarchal oppression and a liberal approach, may be specific to Pakistan. --Lambiam 09:21, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph in section Nisaism in the article Feminism in Pakistan is kind of balanced but close to original research. Secondly even latest academic R.S. , Liberal feminism and Islamic Feminism both, (which I have lined up for update) on Feminism in Pakistan seem ready to acknowledge that some traditionalists support some of the women's rights without agreeing for equality, while they acknowledge their issue based participation in women's rights discourse they seem unwilling to acknowledge it as feminism.

Effectively I will need to trim and transfer some content in the said section to some other suitable Muslim Women's rights article if suitable sources even may be non English become available.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 13:48, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]