The Relationship between Islamic Philosophy and Gender Issue

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Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, Bent al-Hoda Higher Education Complex, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran.

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This qualitative research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship and interaction of Islamic philosophy with gender issue with the inductive content analysis. Therefore, the answer to this question is whether the result of the ratio of these two is classified as "philosophy of gender" and whether its result can be named "gender in Islamic philosophy" or "Islamic philosophy and gender" was investigated. To this end, all written scientific sources were described and analyzed to investigate the different meanings of Islamic philosophy. Then, by considering the interaction of Western philosophies with the issue of gender, the possible ratios of Islamic philosophy and the issue of gender were studied. The results showed that the relationship between gender and philosophy has different forms according to the various meanings of philosophy. If philosophy is considered in its most general sense, the range of issues of philosophy and gender includes all possible relationships in philosophies, mysticisms and theologies with gender issue. On the other hand, if philosophy is considered in the common sense of Islamic philosophy, its issues are due to the difference of the subject. In Islamic philosophy with Western philosophies, it will be significantly different from feminist philosophies. On the other hand, examining the gender issue in various chapters of philosophical anthropology is a kind of development of the chapters of Islamic philosophy, while by examining issues such as the definition of sex and gender in Islamic philosophy, the origin of gender, the method and sources of gender discussion based on Islamic philosophy, a kind of additional philosophy of gender is obtained.

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The Islamic Journal Of Women and The Family
Volume 11, Issue 4 - Serial Number 33
December 2023
Pages 83-103

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