How do these academics use Islamic texts in combination with modern methods and references to human rights to promote gender equality and justice?
New Generation of Tunisian Feminists
In doing so, Jumana Al-Ahmad focuses primarily on a new wave of Tunisian feminist activist and academic work that seeks to promote social justice and human rights and is grounded in Tunisian studies of Arab Islamic civilization. The focus is on three women researchers: Amel Grami, Zahia Jouirou, and Olfa Youssef. They dig deep into the Islamic tradition in search of contemporary solutions to what they see as stagnation and social injustice. The thesis shows how these feminist scholars promote gender equality, and social justice by bringing Islamic sources and publications into conversation with modern methods and references to human rights.
Social change based on traditional Arabic texts themselves
Jumana Al-Ahmad uses an interdisciplinary perspective based on religion and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, and intellectual and social history. The works studied are mainly in Arabic, largely produced by women scholars, and deserve attention at the international level, especially since there is a gap between the writing and scholarship of Muslim feminists in the Anglophone world and that of Arab Muslim feminists writing in Arabic. This thesis contributes to bridging this gap and gaining knowledge.