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Just a reminder about what we'd like to see here. Students will be responding to readings, and their grade will be based on the following rubric:
  • Reflection statements (self positioning within the course concepts);
  • Commentary statements (effective use of the course content in discussion and analysis);
  • New idea statements (synthesis of ideas to a higher level); and
  • Application statements (direct use of the new ideas in a real life setting).
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Women in the Quran

The Women who live under the rules and regulations as set forth in the Quran have strict rules governing all aspects of their lives. The Quran is written in direction towards males, and not females although that is who they are adressing. There are specific lines on how to wean a child, to keep away from a women during menstration, that men are rulers of women. Today, the Quran is still widely followed in many parts of the world, focusing in the Middle East. There are many fundamentalist groups that take the Quran word by word today are extremely volatile. But the Quran also gives provisions to children and women who are divorced or widowed to protect them from the perils of the world for women alone. This correlates with the idea of the early Islam treating their women with positions of prestige as merchants, but the basis of the Quran goes against these founding princples. Muslim practices are held with the five pillars of Islam, that include prayer, alms, mecca, fasting, and professed faith. The women of the Quran are strong women that are dominated by male influences, but still find ways to be women of the western world with cosmetics, specifically eyeliner and mascara and eyeshadow, being the best sold products in the Middle East.

3 comments:

  1. Don't forget, posts on assigned readings need to go up before they are discussed in class.

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  2. It is quite interesting the regulations on women and children are mentioned in the Quran but the fact that it goes into detail about the regulations on widowed catches my attention. Also, how women of middle east have adapted to some western cultures such as eye make-up shows that there is a possible way for more women to express themselves more into the future.

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