Everything about Qasim Amin totally explained
Qasim Amin (
1863-
1908) was an
Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and
Cairo University. Born to an
Upper Egyptian mother and an
Ottoman father who had served as an administrator in
Kurdistan then
Egypt, Amin is perhaps most noted as an early advocate of
women's rights in Egyptian society.
Amin pointed out the plight of
aristocratic Egyptian women who could be kept as a "prisoner in her own house and worse off than a slave". He made this criticism from a basis of
Islamic scholarship and said that women should develop intellectually in order to be competent to bring up the nation's children. This would happen only if they were freed from the seclusion (
purdah) which was forced upon them by "the man's decision to imprison his wife" and given the chance to become educated.
Books by Qasim Amin
- The Liberation of Women
- The New Woman
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