Feminichi fathima

Feminist fathima movie
Ziba mir-hosseini
Female muftis

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Fatima Mernissi

“I want to have two things – the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time”.^[1]

Biography and context

How does one pay tribute to a scholar who is referred to as producing “ground-breaking scholarship”^[2], labelled a “superstar”^[3] and a “marvelous philosopher, a creative spirit, and one of our era’s most important feminists and Muslim intellectuals”^[4] at the same time? All those praises describe the internationally renowned scholar and writer Fatima Mernissi. Iconic within global feminist discourses and recognised as a key figure in the emergence of IslamicFeminism,^[5] the Moroccan feminist and sociologist – who was born in Fez (1940) and died on November 30th 2015 in Rabat – grew up in a middle class family and was part of the first generation to attend a national school for girls in Morocco.^[6] Mernissi’s aim was to make the voices of Muslim women audible throughout the globe, not only as a scholar, but also as an activist.^[7] In the 1980s, she became a professor of sociology at the Mohammed V University in Rabat after having stud

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Biographical Sketch of Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015)

Fatema Mernissi, in whose name the MESA’s Book Award is given, was born in Fes, Morocco, in 1940. Her conservative father registered her in one of the first private mixed schools in a colonized Morocco. After independence, she pursued her higher studies at Mohamed V University, Rabat, then in France and the US. She holds a Ph.D from Brandeis University and her thesis, which later became a book under the title Beyond the Veil, Male-Female Dynamics in Muslim Society (1975), won worldwide acclaim as the first book that deconstructed the patriarchal imaginary in the Muslim world. In parallel to her teaching at Mohamed V University since the 1980s, Mernissi developed a remarkable career as a sociologist, writer, novelist, artist, and civil society-promoter. Many of her books were translated into several languages and Fatema Mernissi quickly became an icon and a role model for women and men across the globe.

Fatema Mernissi’s legacy is unique in covering a large spectrum of themes that span the individual, th

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Fatema Mernissi

Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (1940–2015)

Fatema Mernissi (Arabic: فاطمة مرنيسي, romanized: Fāṭima Marnīsī; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.

Biography

Fatema Mernissi was born on 27 September 1940 in Fez, Morocco. She grew up in the harem of her affluent paternal grandmother along with various female kin and servants.^[1] She received her primary education in a school established by the nationalist movement, and secondary level education in an all-girls school funded by the French protectorate.^[2] In 1957, she studied political science at the Sorbonne in Paris^{[citation needed]} and later at Brandeis University in the US, where she gained her doctorate in 1974.^[3]

She returned to work at the Mohammed V University in Rabat and taught at the Faculté des Lettres between 1974 and 1981 on subjects such as methodology, family sociology and psychosociology. Further, she was a research scholar at the University Institute for Scientific Research