Qasim Amin - Books By Qasim Amin

Books By Qasim Amin

1894-Les Egyptiens. Respone a M. le duc D’Hartcourt was written as a response to Duke Hartcourt’s staunch criticism of Egyptian life and women. Amin did not defend the Egyptian women in his rebuttal but did defend Islam’s treatment of women. 1899- Tahrir al- mar’a (The Liberation of Women)- Unsatisfied with his rebuttal, Amin called for the education of women only to primary level. He maintained his belief in patriarchal domination over women yet advocated modifying legislation affecting divorce, polygamy and abolution of the veil . The book was co-written with Muhammad Abduh and Ahmad Lufti al-Sayid. The book used many Quranic verses to support his belief. 1900- al-Mar’a al-jadida (The New woman) in his book, Amin envisioned ‘the new woman’ emerging in Egypt whose conduct and actions were modeled from the Western woman. This book was considered more liberal in nature, but used social Darwinist as his argument. In his book he states “A woman may be given in marriage to a man she does not know who forbids her the right to leave him and forces her to this or that and then throws her out as he wishes: this is slavery indeed.”