Motherhood in Islam Authors Camille Lacoste-Dujardin Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Keywords: power, patriarchy, law, history, culture, society, change Abstract As the last of the revealed monotheistic religions, Islam is accompanied by a centralized organization effort of a community which tends to expansion. Furthermore, the Koranic revelation was materialized in the institutionalization of an Islamic law which endorses patriarchy, requiring women to bear numerous maternities, since these maternities are considered to be the only guarantor of wealth and community development. So that in the midst of different societies that have become Muslim, traditions may have oriented the law differently, as well as some rivalries of power between patriarchy and motherhood. Today, the changes towards chosen maternity are unavoidable, not just because of the State’s management needs, but also because of the brave lucidity of the women, in spite of the reactionary violence of radical Islamists. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Français) Issue No. 14 (2008): Maternitat a l'islam Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
