Women in Islam

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This paper takes a look at the extent and reality of women's roles within the Islamic realm. The paper focuses on the more recent history of women's roles in Islamic society and attempts to demonstrate the various types of roles women do or could play as opposed to the roles they do or did not play in the realms of politics, economics and labor, Sufism/the mystic orders, the military, or the overall domestic sphere.

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"Few outside the religion understand that the Koran does not outlaw or prohibit women in leadership roles. For example, one of history's great female leaders in the Islamic society was Belquees, better known as the Queen of Sheba. Apparently, the message projected by God by allowing a woman in a political lead was that women in political leadership roles are not offensive to God. Yet, by today's standard, from the outside looking in, women in Islam are seen in a subservient role and few think there is any modern day Queen of Sheba."

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