Brief comment about Islamic Feminisms

Breve comentario acerca de los Feminismos Islámicos

I want to start by recognizing my teachers on the issue of women and Islam: Asma Lamrabet, Amina Teslima al-Yerrahi, Asma Barlas, Houria Bouteldja Arzu Merali and Sirin Adlbi Sibai. It is to them that I owe everything I know about the topic that may be useful in this essay and it is to myself that I blame any error or misinterpretation that may exist in this essay for which I am solely responsible.

They will ask what a Latin American and Caribbean man does by introducing a special issue about Islamic feminism. Not only am I not a woman, but much less I am a Muslim woman. The general answer to this question is very clear: feminism is not an issue or an exclusive responsibility of women, although for obvious reasons women have been the critical thinkers of patriarchal oppression. The most specific answer to this question has everything to do with how this special issue of Tabula Rasa arises about Islamic feminisms.