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Zainab al ghazali2/12/2023 ![]() ![]() (Ahmed 1992: 199) Although she wrote that it was a "crime" for a woman to seek a divorce, she made no secret of the fact that she had divorced her first husband because of his discomfort at her public career. The association also took a political stance, demanding that Egypt be ruled by the Qur'an.Īl Ghazali's own life stands in contradiction to some of her professed beliefs. Besides offering lessons for women, the association published a magazine, maintained an orphanage, offered assistance to poor families, and mediated family disputes. Her weekly lectures to women at the Ibn Tulun Mosque drew a crowd of three thousand, which grew to five thousand during holy months of the year. Muslim Women's Association ( Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat) ![]() (Mahmood 2005: 68) The fact that her organisation was not formally affiliated with the Ikhwan was to prove useful after the Ikhwan was banned, as for a time al Ghazali was able to continue to distribute their literature and host their meetings in her home. However, she did eventually take an oath of personal loyalty to al Banna. Hasan Al-Banna, the founder of the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood), invited al-Ghazali to merge her organisation with his, an invitation she refused as she wished to retain automony. For a short time during her teens, she joined the Egyptian Feminist Union only to conclude that "Islam gave women rights in the family granted by no other society.At the age of eighteen, she founded the Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat (Muslim Women's Association), which she claimed had a membership of three million throughout the country by the time it was dissolved by government order in 1964. He encouraged her to become an Islamic leader citing the example of Nusaybah bint Ka'ab al-Maziniyah, a woman fought alongside Muhammad in the Battle of Uhud. Her father was an Al-Azhar-educated independent religious teacher and cotton merchant. 1.3 Muslim Women's Association (Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat).
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