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doi:10.25212/lfu.qzj.6.4.36

Abstract

This article analyzes how the Kurdish writer Sherzad Hasan (1951 or 1952-present) addresses patriarchy in his novels and novellas. Many Islamic thinkers try to distance and purify Islam from the unpleasant attributes that existed in culture, Arabic culture particularly. Therefore, Islamic researchers call for better readings and understandings of the Qur'an especially regarding the issues of patriarchy and feminism as for them patriarchy is rooted in the cultures and not the teachings of Islam. Although Hasan acknowledges that men do exploit religion for their interests, nonetheless he intertwines both the culture and Islam together and blames them all together for the patriarchal state of the Kurdish society. Through this perspective, Hasan's works conflate Islam with culture and critically question the results of their effects on the gender roles in the Kurdish society. A selected reading of Hasan's works shows how patriarchy is engraved in Kurdish culture by the forces of the common understandings of religion, Islam specifically. Hasan is one of the Kurdish thought pillars addressing patriarchy and its grave consequences, gender inequalities, and freedom

Highlights

It can be said that patriarchy is rooted in the majority of the world's cultures
It is no secret that Western people consider the cultures in the middle east as regressive, patriarchal, and anti-feminist and this is blamed on the ironfist of religion, Islam in particular
Hasan acknowledges that men in patriarchy go against the freedom that God gave Adam and Eve to commit sin, he does not concede that religion in its entirety is a massive influence on patriarchy “Religious people go against their own God, as God gave the freedom to Adam and Eve to commit their sin...but some men try to be God and prevent us from committing that same sin...” (Qadir 2002, p.22)

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Introduction

It can be said that patriarchy is rooted in the majority of the world's cultures. Because of the differences in cultures around the world, differences in understandings of gender roles exist. Many researchers try to combat this view and urge Westerners to differentiate between culture and Islam; they say that it is wrong to vilify an entire religion and blame it for practices that were ever-present in the cultures of the region, the Arabic culture to be specific. Those researchers say that Islam itself came to free women to an extent and gave women rights that were never seen before. Hasan is an unconventional Kurdish writer; while other writers may avoid blaming Islam for patriarchy and the state of women to not face the wrath of the Muslim-dominated society, he comes and does exactly that

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