AYATOLLAH MUTAHARI’S ATTITUDE TO WOMEN: A MODERNIST READING OF A TRADITIONAL SCHOLAR By Musthafa Farook P.

Abstract: Murtaza Mutahari holds the view that Islam maintains equality between men and women. But equality is given not by acknowledging similar and identical rights and duties to both sexes, rather by giving them the same on the basis of their respective natural differences. According to him, men and women are created to live together and different functions are given to them, hence there are differences in their nature. Justice dictates that they should not be given the same functions and duties because of their natural differences, if so it…

Read More