Editing Misogyny (section)

=== Islam ===

{{Main|Women in Islam}}
{{See also|Namus|Islam and domestic violence}}

The fourth chapter (or ''[[sura]]'') of the [[Quran]] is called "Women" (''[[an-nisa]]''). The [[An-Nisa, 34|34th verse]] is a key verse in feminist criticism of [[Islam]].<ref>"Verse 34 of Chapter 4 is an oft-cited Verse in the Qur'an used to demonstrate that Islam is structurally patriarchal, and thus Islam internalises male dominance."
Dahlia Eissa, "[http://www.wluml.org/node/443#_ftn42 Constructing the Notion of Male Superiority over Women in Islam] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116153529/http://www.wluml.org/node/443#_ftn42 |date=16 January 2015 }}: The influence of sex and gender stereotyping in the interpretation of the Qur'an and the implications for a modernist exegesis of rights", Occasional Paper 11 in ''Occasional Papers'' (Empowerment International, 1999).</ref> The verse notes men's God-given advantages over women. They are consequently their protectors and maintainers. Where women are disobedient "admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them..." In his book ''[[No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam|No god but God]]'', [[University of Southern California]], Professor [[Reza Aslan]] wrote that "misogynistic interpretation" has been persistently attached to An-Nisa, 34 because commentary on the Quran "has been the exclusive domain of Muslim men".<ref name=issue>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001261.html |newspaper=Washington Post |title=Clothes Aren't the Issue |date=22 October 2006 |first=Asra Q. |last=Nomani |access-date=31 October 2017 |archive-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922033032/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001261_2.html?noredirect=on |url-status=live}}</ref>

In his book ''Popular Islam and Misogyny: A Case Study of Bangladesh'', [[Taj Hashmi]] discusses misogyny in relation to Muslim culture, writing:

{{blockquote|[T]hanks to the subjective interpretations of the Quran (almost exclusively by men), the preponderance of the misogynic mullahs and the regressive Shariah law in most "Muslim" countries, Islam is synonymously known as a promoter of misogyny in its worst form.... we may draw a line between the Quranic texts and the corpus of avowedly misogynic writing and spoken words by the mullah having very little or no relevance to the Quran.<ref>Hashmi, Taj. ''[http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/taj_hashmi/Popular_Islam_and_Misogyn1.pdf Popular Islam and Misogyny: A Case Study of Bangladesh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203082808/http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/taj_hashmi/Popular_Islam_and_Misogyn1.pdf |date=3 February 2014 }}''. Retrieved August 11, 2008.</ref>}}

The economic and social position of men and women was reflected in [[Blood Money in Islam|blood money]] to the family of a victim. The financial loss for a woman was pegged at half that of a man.<ref name=CD>[[Caner Dagli]], ''[[2 The Cow al-Baqarah]]'', [[Study Quran]]</ref>