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Islam and Feminism Restore to allah (Quran) and the apostle (Hadith) (QS an-Nisaa: 59). Feminism in the Islamic perspective is to establish women's rights and obligations based on the jurisprudence of women that come with the Qur'an and Hadits. In the light of Islamic feminist lens. Historically, Islam comes in the seventh century of the gender revolution. The presence of Islam as an ideology of cultural renewal and cultural oppression of the rights of women that can change the status of women in the eyes of men. It is not seen as a man of genus seconds. Islam does not discriminate against Adam and Hawa. All of God's creation has the same rights. In other words, the right to life. However, Islam raises women as men. Rights of women as human beings and citizens recognized by Islam. Al-Qoran verse sees clearly the equality between women and men are QS. Al - Lail (92): 30-10, calling the men and women in Qasam (pledge) which is the test (qarinah) God sees similarities between the two, according to the preceding paragraph explains that human beings are distinguished by their good and bad behavior and no difference of sex. In other words, the women's emancipation movement has existed since the 7th century until the establishment of ideological feminism in abad19.

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Feminism in the point of view of Western society is the ideology that calls for equality of rights between men and women, in particular from the perspective of the social life of Western societies. The history of feminism began in the 19th century was the century which is the women freedom limited by what the movement arose in the third stage of the so-called wave. In the first wave of the women are very disadvantaged in education, social and political. While in the second wave of courageous women claim their rights and to transmit the participation in the political wave voice and the third is known as a post-feminist which means that there is a change in the processing of rights such as dress and a commitment to the usual activities of men. The term feminism is not free from traditional gender roles / patriarchy, which means that man was created superior to women. The bottom line is that men have the intelligence, strength, and power than women. This certainly felt unfair to women in Europe. Socially, they are obsessed by traditional gender so that they cannot work in accordance with their wishes. With feminism then women can deliver their aspirations so that it can get their right. The things above illustrate the position of women in social shutter life of European countries. Islam in the lens of non-Muslim women are regarded as a religion that most of the set of women's Liberation, as an example, women must wear a headscarf. In Surat Al-Ahzab: 59 stated that women must wear a veil to cover the members of the body except the face and hands, but she was mischaracterized by those early feminists. As we know that Al-Ahzab aims to protect women from the lusts of men. This is really the opposite of feminism, which said that freedom of
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women to wear what they like, but on the other hand, they are not thinking about the consequences of such thinking. In the Islamic view on feminism, which stated that in the Quran, women are granted benefits such as freedom from humiliation (QS 17: 31) released the assumption, as prices of inheritance (QS 4: 19). Even Almighty Muhammad said its satellites that the mother is the one that we must respect. The Islamic concept of God, which was sent down, bringing real world differences between men and women. From the explanation above has explained that the Islamic view of feminist teachings in Islam does not differentiate between women and men. God does not distinguish between men and women from sex, but God distinguishes men and women of good and bad behavior. In fact, in a hadits which states that women are placed in the position of the most respected, so that whatever the role of women in society, Islam upholds that women as a child, adolescent, adult, or elderly, they are highly valued and respected by Islam.

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Work cited: Books:

Gamble, Sarah. The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Post feminism. New York: Routledge. 2006. Iversen, Torben and Frances Rosenbluth. Gender Socialization: How Bargaining Power Shapes Social Norms and Political Attitudes. 2005. Lindsey, Linda L. Gender Roles A sociological Perspective. New Jersey : Prentice-Hall,inc. 1990. Reeves, Hazel and Sally Baden. Gender and Development: Concepts and Definitions. 2000. Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge. 2006. Al-Quran: QS. An-Nisaa: 59 QS. AL-Lail: 92 Q.S. Al Ahzab: 59 Q.S. Al Isro: 17

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