An Analytical study of Fatima Mernissi views regarding the Status of Woman and Seerat-e-Tayyaba

Abstract

Fatima Mernissi 1940-2015) born in Fez, Morocco to a middle-class family. She grew up in the boundaries of the harem structure. Mernissi is known as one of the best Arab Muslim Feminist. She is being acknowledged as a famous public figure in Morocco and abroad. Her outstanding books have been translated into English, Dutch and Japanese.

Her central themes of writing were gender identity, the status of women in Islam and their relation with the socio-political organisation in Moroccan society. She has specific issues in mind while writing like the image of female inferiority which is connected with Middle Eastern Culture, the meaning of women’s secondary states and segregation within the Arab Muslim context. She has tried to estimate the effect of modernisation upon Arab Muslim systems which promotes a different and often contrary model for male-female relations. Mernissi says that Moroccan government encourage such law code that limits social, economic, political and worldly life space as if in the 7^th century.

The purpose of this article is to bring up how the religion Islam itself safeguards women morals and decency, protects her honour and status and secure her dignity against evil thoughts and tongues and also tries to counterblow provoking hands that intends to harm her.