{"id":33397,"date":"2020-01-27T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T10:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/we-used-to-have-no-regard-for-women-gender-equity-and-the-advent-of-islam\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T10:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T10:19:23","slug":"we-used-to-have-no-regard-for-women-gender-equity-and-the-advent-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/we-used-to-have-no-regard-for-women-gender-equity-and-the-advent-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Used to Have No Regard for Women&#8221;: Gender Equity and the Advent of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>By Editorial Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&#8220;We Used to Have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/muslim-lifestyle\/women-in-islam\/the-status-of-women-in-islam-part-1-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Regard for Women<\/a>&#8221; These are the words of Umar ibn Al-Khattab, companion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/prophet-muhammad\/prophet-biography\/biography-of-prophet-muhammad-1-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prophet Muhammad<\/a> (peace be upon him), second Caliph of Islam, and one of the most influential leaders in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured-posts\/need-for-religion-across-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3vHW2h22WE-pNi5WJtRIjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaqeen Institute<\/a> Fellow Maryam Al-Dabbagh as she and co-authors Sh. Omar Suleiman, Roohi Tahir, and Mohammad Elshinawy take us on a journey to 7th century Arabia to observe the transformation of women&#8217;s rights through the eyes of Umar ibn Al-Khattab.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Watch a summary of the paper:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;We Used to Have No Regard for Women&quot;: Gender Equity &amp; the Advent of Islam | Behind the Scenes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2CnbHpkxw8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>Source:<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3vHW2h22WE-pNi5WJtRIjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read and download the full publication here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?v=T2CnbHpkxw8&amp;redir_token=R-HeovpiYkeiCVz96cOhATXL4fx8MTU4MDIwNTI3NEAxNTgwMTE4ODc0&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2lZcgC1\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lZcgC1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have a question about Islam and Muslims, please feel free to have a one-to-one live chat with us:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Website:<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/ww.chatonfaith.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.chatonfaith.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Facebook:<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChatOnFaith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChatOnFaith\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Twitter:<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChatOnFaith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChatOnFaith<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Instagram:<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chataboutfaith\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chataboutfaith\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We Used to Have No Regard for Women&#8221; These are the words of Umar ibn Al-Khattab, companion of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7,24970,25243,25244],"class_list":["post-33397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-faith","tag-featured","tag-gender-and-islam","tag-islam-and-gender-question","tag-we-used-to-have-no-regard-for-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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