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A senior fellow at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations explores human-rights advances in the most conservative Muslim states.

Western feminism, and with it, secularism as enforced in Muslim countries such as Turkey and Tunisia, often don’t stand a chance in most Arab states, writes Coleman. Tribal customs and patriarchal traditions run deep, while “women’s empowerment” is viewed as “nothing more than a slippery slope toward Western decadence and godless secularism, toward widespread adultery and prostitution and the end of family life.” The author believes that significant changes in women’s rights—the right to be educated, own property, work outside of the home, choose a marriage partner, even vote and drive—can only be achieved practically through Islamic feminism, “the promotion of women’s rights through Islamic discourse.” Some regard Islamic feminism as a major sellout for women, but Coleman observes small, important changes taking shape over the past decade in places with rigid interpretations of sharia, including Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The chapter titled “Why Women Matter” establishes “the payoff from women’s rights,” namely what countries quickly learn when women are allowed access to education—birthrates dro

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Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East book by Isobel Coleman

Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East book by Isobel Coleman

Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet , Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women’s rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.

In this timely book, Coleman journeys through the strategic crescent of the greater Middle East—Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan—to reveal how activists are working within the tenets of Islam to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women. Coleman argues that these efforts are critical to bridging the conflict between those championing reform and those seeking to oppress women in the name of religious tradition. Success will bring greater stability and prosperity to the Middle East and stands to transform the region.
   
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