The Veil And The Male Elite

Download or read book The Veil And The Male Elite written by Fatima Mernissi and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-07-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mernissi endeavors to show that discrimination against women, so common in the Muslim world today, is not a fundamental tenet of Islam as many contemporary male Muslims would like us to believe. Her basic premise is that Islam is inherently egalitarian and, using extensive documentation from the Koran, the Hadith, and other Islamic historical commentary, Mernissi proves her hypothesis.