WOMEN AND RELIGIONS: PORTRAITS, ORGANISATIONS, DEBATES

Conclusion

Asma Lamrabet means to deconstruct the prejudices and antiquated interpretations that besmirch the image of Muslim women and undermine their status as community members. Her writings aim at moderation and reformism, even though the author is wary of the label. They are an invitation to break free from the dominant discourse in Islam. She considers that the best solution towards the emancipation of Muslim women is the return to the origins: the Quran and the Sunnah. Her works are one way to deepen one's knowledge of the religious heritage and an invitation to acknowledge women's right to interpret the Quranic texts.

She chose to write in French and implicitly accounts for this in her book Musulmane tout simplement: “Muslim born, I never bothered much about the sense of that identity. I thought myself a Muslim by heredity, by tradition, by obligation... I grew Westernised of necessity. Educated from my earliest childhood in Western schools, I fed on that culture which I absorbed with astonishing ease...” Her discourse, Asma Lamrabet explains, is her way to create connections between all Muslim women doubly marginalised by a religion that condemns them to ignorance and fanaticism as well as by a Westernisation that sees in them a serious threat.

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