WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN THE MUSLIM WORLD: RECONSIDERING RIGHTS OF THE “COMMONS”
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN THE MUSLIM WORLD: RECONSIDERING RIGHTS OF THE “COMMONS”

Summary/Abstract: The crucial question arises how today‟s modern-liberal life can bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while respecting the gap and its uncertainty and figurality? How can today‟s modern-liberal life accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the women‟s empowerment project? In the what to explore responds to these questions, this study will try to develop a secular-liberal constellation that radically opens up what women‟s rights in Muslim world are, and what it can mean for the compassionate concern for Muslim women‟s empowerment regarding their rights as being the commons of Muslim society. Thus, this study examines the interaction among women‟s rights and empowerment, Islam and Western liberalism. As for the liberal approach, complex issue regarding rights for the commons of the secular society, including Muslim world, pose a series of questions regarding many aspects such as fundamental human rights, gender equality, freedom, secularism, current modernism, contemporary mentality, education, rule of law, moral, ethics, culture, and civil society pertinent to revolutionary movements. As seen, many policy-making topics arouse as much contention as those at the nexus of women, Islam and Western liberalism.

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