This highly popular Musawah course, Islam & Gender Equality and Justice (I-nGEJ) - pronounced “I engage” - addresses the knowledge gap of actors with no formal or traditional education on Islam. It empowers them with knowledge on the differences and diversity of Qur’anic interpretations, juristic opinions, and the conceptual tools that exist within the tradition that make reform possible in Islam. It builds their knowledge on the different resources that they can use in their work on gender equality and justice, not only from within Islamic teachings (Qur’an, Hadith, and jurisprudence), but also from human rights discourses, laws, and contemporary lived realities.
The overall goal of this course is to build the knowledge and courage of participants wanting to promote an understanding of Islam that upholds equality and justice in the context of changing times and circumstances.
I-nGEJ builds the knowledge and courage of participants to promote an understanding of Islam that upholds equality and justice, and to critically speak out on the impact of discriminatory laws, policies and practices justified in the name of religion. It helps create a strong public voice of leaders promoting understandings of Islam that recognize equality and justice in the context of changing times and circumstances.
to engage constructively with patriarchal religious discourses that discriminate against women and offer an egalitarian Islamic discourse that embraces a diversity of religious interpretations, arguments, and conceptual tools that support their work on gender equality and justice. they can use to strengthen their work from within Islamic teachings (Qur’an, Hadith, and jurisprudence), human rights, laws, and lived realities.
The I-nGEJ is run in a seminar format and consists of lectures, presentations, and group discussions. Readings are assigned before arrival, with time allotted for additional reading and consultations with resource persons. The course is designed for a maximum of 30 participants, and a minimum of two resource persons and two facilitators, one from the local context. A needs analysis will be conducted to shape the final design of the course to meet the needs and priorities of participants.
By the end of the course, Musawah hopes that participants will be able to come to an understanding of the ‘traditional’ and ‘patriarchal’ modes of knowledge production in the Islamic legal tradition; be introduced to egalitarian, reformist modes of knowledge production; and develop arguments and strategies to advance a rights-based approach in their own contexts that is also grounded in Islam.
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