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	Fatema Mernissi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mernissi is largely concerned with Islam and women's roles in it, analyzing the historical development of Islamic thought and its modern manifestation.
		Through a detailed investigation of the nature of the succession to Muhammad, she casts doubt on the validity of some of the ahadith (sayings and traditions attributed to Muhammad), and therefore subordination of women that she sees in Islam, but not necessarily in the Qur'an.
		Mernissi is currently a lecturer at the Mohamed V University of Rabat and a research scholar at the University Institute for Scientific Research, in the same city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatima_Mernissi (228 words)

	Politics and the Prophet (Fatima Mernissi) by Martin Kramer
		Mernissi's point of departure is a dissenting interpretation of Islam's historical legacy.
		It is currently fashionable to argue that an Islamic civil society, born with the faith, survived and even thrived despite a rapid turnover of absolute rulers; that, under the tumultuous surface of politics, Islamic society maintained an inner harmony that lasted for a millennium, until the rude intrusion of the West.
		Mernissi's voice is not a lone one; it echoes those of other North African intellectuals, such as the Tunisian Moncef Marzouki, whose book of a decade ago caused an uproar.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/PoliticsandProphet.htm (2641 words)

	Liberal Islam Network
		Fatima Mernissi was born in 1940 in Fez, Morocco.
		Fatima was lucky that despite of her life in a harem, she got the opportunity to acquire a higher education.
		Since she was a little girl, Mernissi was involved in the national upheaval of thought and raised wild questions for instance on the limits imposed between boys and girls.
	islamlib.com /en/page.php?page=article&id=461 (1438 words)

	Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mernissi reminds us with nostalgia that another path, that of the sovereignty of the individual and freedom of opinion, were possible in the frame of Islam.
		Mernissi however passes very fast over the fact that this flowering Muslim thought, known as "falasifa" was an exception and that if "the concept of reason was connected to criminal activities which destroyed the solidarity of the Umma", it is because this idea was solidly founded in Islam.
		Mernissi tells us that certain features of democracy could be compared to those of the Jahiliyya, a period mostly suppressed and occulted as the example of what is incompatible with Islam, a period of arrogant individualism through the cult of the idols, crime and instability against which Mohammad fought.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0738207454 (988 words)

	Amazon.com: Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World: Books: Fatima Mernissi,Mary Jo Lakeland,Fatema Mernissi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mernissi explains the fear of women by the interesting idea that women in power are linked in collective memory with the violence and murder of these old ages.
		Mernissi has also an interesting view on the consequences of the Gulf War, the "ultimate horror" for Muslims which put in light "the lack of democracy, the dependence and the powerlessness" of the Arab States who were unable to protect the Muslims.
		Mernissi lavishes mythology upon fact, to the point where it is impossible to tell whether or not her use of examples is to be trusted.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738207454?v=glance (2529 words)

	Personal Accounts - Sample Analysis
		Fatima Mernissi is a professor of sociology at Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco and an internationally recognized authority on feminism and Islam.
		Mernissi’s account is valuable because it reflects her own internalization of the Moroccan Muslim culture in which she grew up.
		Mernissi’s description of growing up in urban and rural Muslim homes, with varying degrees of freedom, is true to the anthropological accounts of the region.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/unpacking/acctsanalysis.html (808 words)

	Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mernissi's memoir about her childhood in an urban domestic harem in Fez in the late 1940s recounts the life experiences of her female relatives and her own reactions to the world around her.
		Fatima's mother celebrated her daughter's birth with the same level of enthusiasm usually reserved for boy babies; she claimed male superiority was nonsense and anti-Muslim.
		Mernissi tells us on page one that the women dreamed of trespassing all the time and that the world beyond the gate was their goal.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0201489376.html (947 words)

	suaramerdeka.com - semata-mata fakta! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tapi, Mernissi tetap berhasil mendapat gelar di bidang politik dari Mohammed V University di Rabat, Maroko, dan gelar PhD dari Universitas Brandels, Amerika pada tahun 1973.
		Tafsir alternatif Mernissi yang amat terkenal tajam dapat terlihat dari dua bukunya, The Forgotten of Queen in Islam dan Islam and Democracy, yang keduanya telah diterjemahkan ke bahasa Indonesia, Ratu-Ratu Islam yang Terlupakan, oleh Mizan, 1994, dan Islam dan Demokrasi: Antologi Ketakutan oleh LKIS, 1994.
		Mernissi menunjukkan, betapa agama dengan sangat mudah dapat dimanipulasi.
	suaramerdeka.com /cybernews/layar/tokoh/tokoh27.html (725 words)

	Books : Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy, feminists, and others trying to resist fundamentalism--must use the same sacred texts as Muslims who use them for violent ends, to prove different views.
		In her book, Islam and Democracy, Fatima Mernissi, a Moroccan author, draws back on her personal experiences, not only as a Moslem but also as a woman, to explain why democracy has not caught on in the Arab countries and what are the prospects for the future.
		Fatima Mernissi has provides an interesting, academic and social perspective of Islam and it's fear of democracy; while providing yet a solid argument for the need for Islam to embrace democracy.
	www.arabiadirectory.com /ItemId/0738207454 (588 words)

	Chapter Two: The Islamic Sexual Morality (I) Its Foundation
		Fatima Mernissi's book, Beyond the Veil subtitled as "Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society," is a study of the male-female relationship in the present Moroccan society.
		However, Mernissi has discussed the Islamic sexual morality in a chapter entitled as "The Muslim Concept of Active Female Sexuality." The main part of her discussion centers on the comparison between the views of Freud and Ghazali on female sexuality.
		The second part of Mernissi's contention is that in Islam men are not supposed to be emotionally attached to their wives; love between husband and wife is not encouraged or tolerated.
	www.al-islam.org /m_morals/chap2b.htm (6457 words)

	The Forgotten Queens of Islam
		But Fatima Mernissi examined fifteen centuries of Islamic history and discovered that the critics were wrong.
		"Mernissi's writing is intellectually relevant both to her own people and to others because of her thorough explanations and fascinating stories about each queen.
		Fatima Mernissi teaches sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/M/mernissi_forgotten.pb.html (364 words)

	The Future of Aga Khan University : Evolution of a Vision
		Fatima Mernissi; of the observers only Shamsh Kassim-Lakha was present.
		Fatima Mernissi; of the observers,Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, John Dirks and David Fraser (part-time).
		The appoinment in april 1992 of the commission chairman as special representative of the UN Secretary General for the Western Sahara made possible freguent meetings between the Secrectary and Chairman in New York City, which greatly facilated the planning of the meetings and the Commission's work generally.
	www.aku.edu /creport/appendixB2.htm (565 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mernissi allows for the reader to look three-dimensionally at the Muslim society, especially in regards to sexual space boundaries and desegregation, and form his or her personal opinion about the topic.
		Mernissi makes it somewhat simpler for the reader to understand the goals of the book by outlining the various dimensions as well as writing conclusions that draw from the section but also incorporate other ideas.
		Mernissi is thorough in her dissertation of male-female dynamics, and encourages the reader to form his or her own opinions about the topic.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0253311624 (1015 words)

	Books on Fatima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During her last visit to Fatima, the celebrated "miracle of the sun"--a spectacular atmospheric phenomenon--occurred in the presence of more than 70,000 astonished witnesses.
		It is the magic of recreating a world of one's own, navigating beyond the frontiers, that Mernissi describes with great wit and color.
		Mernissi argues that Islamic fundamentalism is in part a defense against recent changes in sex roles and perceptions of sexual identity.
	b00ks.bankhacker.com /Fatima (719 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fatima Mernissi's careful research is fascinating and challenging.
		I think Mernissi's work is at least as important as any recent writing by Christian scholars toward uncovering the historical Jesus and the original face of Christianity.
		Mernissi's view is that when the tradition first started, most (if not all) women were considered slaves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0201632217 (753 words)

	Amazon.com: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood: Books: Fatima Mernissi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Moroccan sociologist Mernissi (Islam and Democracy) charts the changing social and political frontiers and limns the personalities and quirks of her world.
		Mernissi, a western schooled sociologist, feminist, and scholar, takes us into the life of a young girl born into a family in Fez (in Western Morocco) in the 1940's.
		We learn about the feelings she and her brother (with whom she is close) experience when they come of an age to be separated; he relegated to the world of the men, and she to the hidden world of the harem.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201489376?v=glance (2653 words)

	Women Publishing in Asia - SIMORGH
		In Pakistan, for instance, there is a tendency to see him either as the hairsplitting dogmatist, so consistently castigated by the sufi, or to align him with the lecherous 'halwa eating' buffoon of the popular jokes and local myths.
		Another wonderful book by Fatima Mernissi, this book addresses the age old debate within Islam regarding the rights of women to head a state.
		Mernissi undertakes a scholarly journey through the Quaran to discuss this question.
	www.spinifexpress.com.au /fasiapub/pakistan/sim.htm (975 words)

	Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite
		Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite
		Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one to entrust power to.
		Mernissi's goal is rather a revisionist one: showing that Islam actually invites political equality between the sexes.
	access.lowtech.org /freepeople/fatmernissi.html (365 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - need help/suggestions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I will plan on mentioning Hazrat Khadija and how she was a thriving businesswoman and how the Holy Propher (pbuh) had no sons and the kuffar said noone would remember him but he admired hazrat fatima so much.
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		I took one course in college about Muslim Women that was taught by some Jewish lesbian feminist, needless to say she loved Fatima Mernissi I grew to hate them both.
	www.islamicaweb.com /archive/t-11500 (996 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem.
		In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youthwomen who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination.
		After first reading _The Veil and the Male Elite_, what Mernissi has to say in _Dreams of Trespass_ provides insight into some of the events and perceptions of her early life that helped shape who she is today.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0201489376 (758 words)

	Fatima Mernissi
		Fatima Mernissi is a contemporary Moroccan feminist writer.
		1-9, Mernissi reflects on the state of the Arab world relative to the West in the aftermath of the Gulf War:
		Will we be sacrificed for community security in the coming rituals to be performed by all those who are afraid to raise the real problem - the problem of individualism and responsibility, both sexual and political?
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/fatima_mernissi.htm (945 words)

	Events
		The following is a summary of a talk given by Fatima Mernissi Professor of Sociology, Institut Universitaire de Recherche Scientifique,Universite Mohamed V, Morocco on March 9, 1998 at the George Washington University
		According to Fatima Mernissi, the future success of Arab societies depends upon its citizens' resourcefulness and independence from the state.
		Traditionally, Arab governments were supposed to produce an environment conducive to trade with secure borders and trade routes and to produce principled leaders.
	www.ned.org /events/deminvention/mernissi.html (516 words)

	The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That said, Fatima Mernissa, a Muslim herself, has certainly left no stone unturned with her analyses of the Hadith's.
		From explaining why it's not "un-Islamic" to check on the veritablness of a Hadith, to picking apart two Hadith's with a fine toothed comb, to explaining just why wearing a veil is not only unrequired by the Koran, but is unIslamic in itself, she covers just about everything in this book.
		Mernissi gives you an understanind of how hadiths work, shows you proof that Hadith may have been well contaminated with personal bias as well as cultural bias.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0201632217.html (424 words)

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	Fatema Mernissi
		Fatema Mernissi's new book "Les Sindbads marocains" (French original) has been released in Morocco.
		If you are considering buying a book by F. Mernissi, we would appreciate if you use one of the Amazon links in the book section.
		What ever book or other goods you would like to buy anyhow from Amazon, you may use the general link and support the web site and the work of the NGOs.
	www.mernissi.net (408 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Encyclopedia : F : FA : FAT : Fatima Mernissi
		Mernissi is largely concerned with Islam and women's roles in it, and this generally takes the form of a debate about the historical development of Islamic thought and its modern manifestation.
		Through a detailed investigation of the nature of the secession to Muhammad, she casts doubt on the validity of some of the Ahadith (sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) and therefore the subordination of women she sees in Islam but not necessarily in the Qur'an.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Fatima_Mernissi (226 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		by Fatima Mernissi (Author), Mary Jo Lakeland (Translator)
		From one of the world's foremost Islamic scholars, a revised edition of a classic and groundbreaking book on Islam.
		In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy, feminists, and others trying to resist fundamentalism--must use the same sacred texts as Muslims who use them for violent ends,...
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