Author: Mona Abousenna
Mona Abousenna is professor emerita of English at the Faculty of Education–Ain Shams University and cofounder and secretary general of the Afro-Asian Philosophy Association and the Averröes and Enlightment International Association.
Progress Elusive for Egypt’s Women
Although this article was written prior to the political unrest in Egypt and the fall of the government of Hosni Mubarak, we are assured by the author that the situation described here has not materially changed. —Eds. Many middle-class women in Egypt, who entered the work force after being granted the right to equal employment …
Why Secularization Failed in the Muslim World
Secularization failed early in the Muslim world. It was a lengthy process that unfolded in four stages. The first stage began as early as the fourth century c.e., when Christians and Jews—not the Muslims, as popularly supposed—undertook the translation of Greek philosophy into Arabic. The Muslim Arab philosophers al-Kindi, al-Farabi, and Avicenna benefited from these …