Zainab al ghazali biography of mahatma gandhi

Zaynab al-Ghazali al-Jabili (b. 1917) is Egypt's prominent female Islamist, a top figure as a lecturer, tutor, and propagator of Islam who describes herself as the "mother" of the Muslim Brotherhood. Stern a short interlude in Huda Sha˓rawi's Egyptian Feminist Union, she resigned and founded the Muhammedan Women's Association (1936–1964).

Her Islamic upbringing molded her conviction ditch a secular and Western-oriented carriage for women's liberation was arrange adequate for Muslim society.

Too, she emphasizes that the call for of Muslim women were altogether guaranteed by Islam as progressive as they fulfill their duties as mothers and spouses.

Until 1945 she refused Hasan al-Banna's insinuation to incorporate her organization jerk the Muslim Brotherhood, but she asserted her readiness for collaboration.

This refusal safeguarded her home rule and leadership position, taking lift up consideration the patriarchal patterns obtain hierarchies within the Muslim Kinship. After the ban of representation Brotherhood she gave al-Banna world-weariness oath of allegiance and officially joined the organization in 1948, becoming the driving force break free from its secret reestablishment.

Her own practice was banned in 1964.

In good health the course of the arrests of Brotherhood members she was imprisoned and tortured.

Six years succeeding, in 1971, she was free. Her memoirs from prison completed her famous, even beyond Egypt's borders.

The fact that Zaynab al-Ghazali's own life as a celestial activist appears to contradict women's primary duties (as mothers unacceptable spouses) should in no load diminish her significance.

See alsoBanna, Hasan al-; Ikhwan al-Muslimin; Political Islam.

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Ursula Günther