Scholarly feminist versus internet commentator on women issues in Islam

This article discusses two different types of contemporary writings both
“scholarly feminists” and “internet commentators” on women in Islam;
particularlyissues related to gender equality such as women’s rights, status
and creation. By comparing two different groups of writers, the objective of this
paper is to discover whether there are significant differences between them on
issues of women in Islam, which shed light on modern Islamic thinking. From a
brief investigation of several books as representatives of scholarly feminists, and
several websites, which publish many articles on women in Islam, as
representatives of Internet commentators, it is clear that both groups seem to
have similar attitude on the topic. They tried to clarify a common misperception
of women in Islam which is commonly portrayed to be “a second class” . Moreover , it is clear that the message of ‘Internet commentators’ seem to be more
effective and more likely to prevail.