Fatema Mernissi was born in Morocco on September 27, 1940, and she passed away in Rabat on November 30, 2015. She was a Moroccan sociologist and feminist writer. She began studying political science at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1957 before continuing her studies in the US at Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in 1974.
Intersectionality: The Forgotten Queens of Islam
In her work, “The Forgotten Queens of Islam,” Fatima Mernissi takes an intersectional approach to understand how social and political identities that led to discrimination shaped women’s places throughout early Islamic history. Her goal was to dispel myths about the lack of women in politics and other positions of authority and bring to light the tremendous contributions that women had made throughout early Islamic history. She accomplishes this by changing how women are portrayed in historiographies and examining the leadership roles that women played throughout Islamic history. Even though men were awarded religious titles, she asserts that women occupied influential political positions. The numerous historical narratives she provides about fifteen women and the active roles they played in pre-modern Islam politics serve as an example of this. READ MORE…
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