PEMIKIRAN FIQH WANITA QOSIM AMIN

Jurnal Studi Gender Indonesia
Vol 4, No 1 (2013): Jurnal Studi Gender Indonesia

This paper explores Qasim Amin’s thinking on fiqh related to women; hijab, divorce, and polygamy.Initially, Qasim Amin wrote al-Mis} riyyu>  n to defend the patriarchal traditions that occurred in Egyptwhich is criticized by D’Couhourt. But, in five years later he wrote the book Tah}  ri> r mar’ah that reconstructsfiqin (Islamic jurisprudence) on women’s issues. He reinforced his opinion in his later piece of  writing titledal-mar’ah al-jadidah. There are several factors behind his shifting way of thinking; the influence ofmodernization in Egypt and the influence of  French culture where he was studying. In social science theory,changing way of  thinking is reasoneable and is in accordance with the theory of  creative personality initiatedby David Mc.Celland.