- The authors:
Manoubia Ben Ghedahem - Pages: 250-255
- Section: LANGUAGE, TEACHING, INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATION
- URL: http://conferences-ifl.rudn.ru/2686-8199-2020-7-250-255/
- DOI: 10.22363/2686-8199-2020-7-250-255
When we speak about tunisian women’s rights…There was, since the XIX th century in Tunisia, a discourse that focuses on women’s rights. That discourse swung between position statements that were in favor of women in the name of humanly shared values and total rejections in the name of the religion. Both statements, defense and opposition, were based on lectures and interpretations of the muslim religious text. And, until nowadays, it is in its name that some values are rejected while others are claimed. In a matter offact, women’s rights have been held captive by a political speech that, has been, and still is men’s in power speech.
We will study this discourse’s communication and its interpretation starting from the XIX th century in the tunisian high political spheres in some texts, such as the Letter of the cheikh Ibn Abi Dhiaf, great minister at that time, and the Mémoires of Kheireddine who also was a great enlightened minister. Afterward, we will see how this discourse moved on in the world of the literate ones through The liberal spirit of the Coran of Ettealbi, a zeitounian cheikh.
We will aimwith this studyto discover some of the fundamental texts that came from this heterogenous reception, which is, in our opinion, the right tool to measure how the muslim world and more specifically the great cheikhs of the Zeitouna reacted to the question of the women’s rights, how their speeches have evolved through time and above all, how did they use the religious texts in order to support their theories.
The women’s rights question has evolved to affect more and more fields until it reached the four true and great women’s conditions issues, which are: education, inheritance, wedding (liberty of choice, polygamy and divorce) and maybe the most thorny one, the veil since it has pushed her away of the public space, led to her objectivation, to her physical and moral imprisonment, and forbad her to get her citizen’s status.
Keywords: Communication, political discourse, religious discourse, woman, interpretation, Coran’s lecture, modernity, Tunisia
Manoubia Ben Ghedahem
Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis (ISLT) Tunis, Tunisia
University of Carthage Tunis, Tunisia
e-mail: benghedahem@yahoo.fr ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7407-7540
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