Women and Islam: A Reformist Vision

1 October 2014. From 18:30 | Workshop | Spanish | IEMed, Barcelona

The conference “Women and Islam: a reformist vision” by Asma Lamrabet, a Moroccan doctor and intellectual specializing in gender and Islam, opens the interuniversity program Aula Mediterrània, which the IEMed has been offering since October until June 2015. It is a series of conferences, open to the public, co-organized with eleven university master’s degree programs.

In her lecture, Lamrabet presents a reformist reading of the issue of women and Islam, noting the importance of reviewing the perspective and discourse from which this issue is addressed, central to contemporary debates. According to Lamrabet, the instrumentalization that some societies have made of Islam makes any understanding impossible and erases the spiritual message of Islam. Lamrabet also reviews different views on the relationship between women, Islam and religion and calls for a reinterpretation of women’s issues from religion without falling into extremist ideologies that trivialize it.

The event is attended by Senén Florensa, Executive President of the IEMed, who is presenting the first edition of Aula Mediterrània, and Dolors Bramon, PhD in Semitic Philology and History (UB).

The cycle “Aula Mediterrània: Interpreting the Mediterranean today” consists of about thirty lectures to understand and reflect on the Mediterranean region from multiple disciplines and fields of study: history, international relations, interculturality, migration, literature, language, politics and social challenges, among many other issues.