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Edited by Syed Mumtaz Ali and Rabia Mills
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This 1925 essay was originally part of a lecture series
delivered in Madras by Marmaduke Pickthall and was
entitled " The Relation of the Sexes. " His exceptional
attitude toward the position of women is fascinating.
Throughout this entire lecture, the reader will be struck
again and again by just how advanced Marmaduke
Pickthalls thinking was. He identifies and clarifies what
Muslim womens rights are, and as can be seen, those
rights are arguably (even today) far more advanced than
what her western counterparts have achieved so far.
Western women (i.e. in the USA and Canada and Great
Britain) had still not achieved the right to vote or obtain
the ownership of property - even up to World War I.
However, by August, 1920, after a lengthy, intense and
turbulent suffrage movement, women finally did achieve
the right to vote in those three countries. Women had
acquired the right to vote somewhat earlier in New
Zealand, (1893) and they had attained this right in
Australia in 1902. However women in France did not
acquire that right until 1944 and then Italy and Japan in
1946 and Mexico in 1953. The womens rights
movement broadened its scope during the 20th century in
most western countries and now, today, some of the rights
which are currently sought by the various feminist groups
throughout the world are: the right to serve on juries; the
right to retain earnings and property after marriage; the
right to retain citizenship after marriage to an alien; and
the right to equal pay and equal job opportunity. In the late
1960s, the so-called womens liberation movement was
established and it became quite active. In the USA, women
still have not achieved equality of rights [1] under the law
(as of Feb/2001).
Therefore, considering that this lecture was given in 1925,
the reader will no doubt be astonished by just how
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