Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
Foreword
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years, women have failed to achieve a status equal to
that of men. They are almost as backward today as
they were before the launching of the “women’s lib”
movement. The only practical result has been that
women have come out of the home, and are to be
seen everywhere in the company of men. By degrees
they have lost their femininity without having
achieved the goal of equal status with men in every
domain for which they paid this very high price.
The failure of women’s liberation has led to wide-
ranging research being carried out on this topic,
employing strictly scientific methods. Finally, the
patent biological differences between men and
women have been scientifically proved. These
differences have all along been a reason for women’s
failure to find an equal place in every department of
life. Where philosophers had cast doubts upon the
religious concept of women — quite erroneously as
it turned out — scientific findings have now
reestablished this concept’s veracity.
Now the question arises as to why it is that once
science has supported the religious concept of man
and woman as being the right one, the allegation
