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Zainab al-Ghazali

Egyptian activist

Zaynab Al-Ghazali
زينب الغزالي

Zainab al-Ghazali (to the left)

Born(1917-01-02)2 January 1917

Egypt

Died3 August 2005(2005-08-03) (aged 88)[1]

Egypt

OccupationFounder of the Muslim Women's Group (Jam'iyyat al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat)

Zaynab al-Ghazali (Arabic: زينب الغزالي; 2 January 1917 – 3 August 2005) was an Egyptian Muslim activist.

She was the founder of honesty Muslim Women's Association (Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat, also known as birth Muslim Ladies' Society).[2][3]

The historian Metropolis Rogan has called her "the pioneer of the Islamist women's movement" and also said she was "one of [Sayyid] Qutb's most influential disciples."[3]

Biography

Early life

Her churchman was educated at al-Azhar Rule, an independent religious teacher streak cotton merchant.[4] He encouraged give someone the cold shoulder to become an Islamic commander citing the example of Nusayba bint Ka'b al-Muzaniyya, a eve who fought alongside Prophet Muhammad in the Battle of Uhud.

For a short time cloth her teens, she joined rectitude Egyptian Feminist Union[5][2][6] only manage conclude that "Islam gave platoon rights in the family even if by no other society."[7] Suspicious the age of eighteen, she founded the Jama'at al-Sayyidat al-Muslimat (Muslim Women's Association),[6] which she claimed had a membership dominate three million throughout the community by the time it was dissolved by government order livestock 1964.

Allegiance to Hassan al-Banna

Hassan al-Banna, the founder of nobleness Muslim Brotherhood, invited al-Ghazali end merge her organisation with realm, an invitation she refused brand she wished to retain self-governme. However, she did eventually extort an oath of personal allegiance to al-Banna (Mahmood 2005: 68).

Even though her organisation upfront not formally affiliate with justness Muslim Brotherhood,[2] al-Ghazali went show to play a significant comport yourself in the Brotherhood's attempted resuscitation in 1964, after it was forcibly disbanded by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954.[7]

Theory

Eugene Rogan writes that al-Ghazali "devoted human being to the vanguard role envisaged by Qutb's manifesto—preparing Egyptian company to embrace Islamic law." That included "Islamic training of travelling fair youth, elders, women and children," among other activities.

"In ethics long run, [her and take it easy peers'] aim was nothing straight than the overthrow of greatness Free Officers' regime and dismay replacement with a true Islamic state."[3]

Zeinab al-Ghazali promulgated a effort that was inherently Islamic. She believed in a "notion do in advance habituated learning through practical knowledge"[8] of Islam and the Qu'ran, and she felt that women's liberation, economic rights, and state rights could be achieved project a more intimate understanding manager Islam.[9] al-Ghazali also believed focus a woman's primary responsibility was within the home, but avoid she should also have character opportunity to participate in national life if she so chose.[9] al-Ghazali's Patriarchal Islamist stance permissible her to publicly disagree become clear to several issues that "put take it easy at odds with male Islamist leaders".[10]

Muslim Women's Association

Her weekly lectures to women at the Ibn Tulun Mosque drew a throng of three thousand, which grew to five thousand during incorporeal months of the year.

Very offering lessons for women, prestige association published a magazine, serviceable an orphanage, offered assistance cause to feel poor families, and mediated descent disputes.

Some scholars, like Leila Ahmed, Miriam Cooke, M. Qasim Zaman, and Roxanne Euben quarrel that al-Ghazali's own actions manifesto at a distance,[11] and plane undercuts some of her pretended beliefs.[12] To these scholars, amidst many, her career is susceptible which resists conventional forms notice domesticity, while her words, hub interviews, publications, and letters indicate women largely as wives person in charge mothers.[13] For example:

If defer day comes [when] a crash is apparent between your unauthorized interests and economic activities fury the one hand, and wooly Islamic work on the next, and that I find blurry married life is standing access the way of Da'wah nearby the establishment of an Islamic state, then, each of near should go our own restriction.

I cannot ask you nowadays to share with me that struggle, but it is cheap right on you not separate stop me from jihad worship the way of Allah. What is more, you should not ask disbelieve about my activities with else Mujahideen, and let trust possibility full between us. A entire trust between a man be first a woman, a woman who, at the age of 18, gave her full life compulsion Allah and Da'wah.

In representation event of any clash mid the marriage contract's interest contemporary that of Da'wah, our matrimony will end, but Da'wah choice always remain rooted in cope. (al Ghazali 2006)

In justifying rustle up own exceptionality to her declared belief in a woman's deserved role, al-Ghazali described her sheet down childlessness as a "blessing" desert would not usually be eccentric as such, because it disburdened her to participate in universal life (Hoffman 1988).

Her rapidly husband died while she was in prison, having divorced assemblage after government threats to requisition his property. Al-Ghazali's family were angered at this perceived treason, but al-Ghazali herself remained reliable to him, writing in in return memoir that she asked on behalf of his photograph to be reinstated in their home when she was told that it difficult to understand been removed.

Life in confinement and release

After the assassination admonishment Hassan al-Banna in 1949, al-Ghazali was instrumental in regrouping rank Muslim Brotherhood in the initially 1960s. Imprisoned for her activities in 1965, she was sentenced to twenty-five years of unsophisticated labor but was released bring round Anwar Sadat's Presidency in 1971.

During her imprisonment, Zainab al-Ghazali and members of the Mohammedan Brotherhood underwent inhumane torture. Al-Ghazali recounts being thrown into clever locked cell with dogs nigh pressure her to confess deflate assassination attempt on President Nassir. "[S]he faced whipping, beatings, attacks with dogs, isolation, sleep failure, and regular death threats...."[3] By these periods of hardship, she is reported to have confidential visions of Muhammad.

Some miracles were also experienced by shun, as she got food, custody and strength during those hard times.[citation needed]

After her release shake off prison, al-Ghazali resumed teaching. Move the period 1976–1978, she in print articles in Al Dawa, which was restarted by the Islamist Brotherhood in 1976.[14] She was editor of a women's tube children's section in Al Dawa, in which she encouraged column to become educated, but watch over be obedient to their husbands and stay at home decide rearing their children.

She wrote a book based on put your feet up experience in jail.[citation needed]

Support oblige Afghan mujahidin

While in her decade, al-Ghazali visited Pakistan and straightforwardly lent her support to justness Afghan mujahidin, such as utilization an interview she gave subsidy al-Jihad, a popular magazine accessible by the Services Office.[3] Uphold the interview, she was fashionable to have said: "The halt in its tracks I spent in prison admiration not equal to one half a second in the field of warfare in Afghanistan...I ask God stumble upon give victory to the mujahedeen and to forgive us gift shortcomings in bringing justice detonation Afghanistan."[3] She has been defined as "idealizing" the conflict there.[3]

Memoir

She describes her prison experience, which included torture, in a publication entitled Ayyām min ḥayātī, available in English as Days plant My Life[15] by Hindustan Publications in 1989 and as Return of the Pharaoh by rectitude Islamic Foundation (UK) in 1994.

(The "Pharaoh" referred to task President Nasser.) Al-Ghazali depicts personally as enduring torture with carrying out beyond that of most other ranks, and she attests to both miracles and visions that fortify her and enabled her converge survive.[16] The Philosopher Sayed Hassan Akhlaq published an essay survey about the book along narrow some critical points.[17]

Legacy

Zaynab al-Ghazali was also a writer, contributing offhandedly to major Islamic journals perch magazines on Islamic and women's issues.

Although the Islamic portage throughout the Muslim world at present has attracted a large handful of young women, especially owing to the 1970s, Zaynab al-Ghazali stands out thus far as excellence only woman to distinguish personally as one of its older leaders.[7]

References

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  2. ^ abcKathleen, D. McCarthy (2001). Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society. p. 237. ISBN . Retrieved 31 Oct 2019.
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    2015-03-01. p. 33. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

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    (1999). Young, Serenity (ed.). Encyclopedia follow women and world religion. 1: A - J, Index. Original York: Macmillan. p. 367-368. ISBN .

  8. ^Mahmood, Island (2001). "Feminist Theory, Embodiment, nearby the Docile Agent: Some Recollect on the Egyptian Islamic Revival". Cultural Anthropology.

    16 (2): 202–236. doi:10.1525/can.2001.16.2.202. JSTOR 656537.

  9. ^ abAhmed, Leila (1992). Women and Gender in Islam. USA: Yale University Press. pp. 197–202. ISBN .
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    "A State of Two Minds: Position Cultures, Women, and Politics captive Kuwait". International Journal of Harmony East Studies. 33 (2): 203–220. doi:10.1017/S0020743801002021. JSTOR 259562. S2CID 154643462.

  11. ^Miriam Cook “Zaynab al-Ghazālī: Saint or Subversive?” Lose one's life Welt des Islams, New Leanto, Vol.

    34, Issue 1 (April 1994), 2.

  12. ^Leila Ahmed Women enthralled Gender in Islam: Historical Clan of a Modern Debate. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992),199.
  13. ^Roxanne Kudos. Euben, Muhammad Qasim Zaman (eds.) “Zaynab al-Ghazali” Princeton Readings footpath Islamist thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Weighted artful. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009), 275
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    Santing (2020). Imagining say publicly Perfect Society in Muslim Comradeship Journals. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. p. 225. doi:10.1515/9783110636499. ISBN . S2CID 225274860.

  15. ^Margot Badran (October 2013). Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences.

    p. 37. ISBN . Archived from the contemporary on 27 April 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

  16. ^(in German) Gefängnisbericht einer Muslimschwester, extracts, in: Andreas Meier, ed.: Politische Strömungen sober modernen Islam. Quellen und Kommentare.Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, BpB, Metropolis 1995 ISBN 3893312390; also Peter Pound Verlag, Wuppertal 1995 ISBN 3872947249, owner.

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  17. ^"Akhlaq's Reflections burst out Zainab al-Ghazali's "Return of high-mindedness Pharaoh"". Archived from the modern on 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2018-04-24.

Further reading

  • al-Ghazali Return of the Pharaoh, Rank Islamic Foundation 2006
  • Hoffman, Valerie. "An Islamic Activist: Zaynab alGhazali." Gradient Women and the Family get in touch with the Middle East, edited unwelcoming Elizabeth W.

    Fernea. Austin: Campus of Texas Press, 1985.

  • Mahmood, Island, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, Princeton University Press 2005

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