The Moroccan sociologist and writer Fatima Mernisi, leader in the Arab world for his writings on the role of women in Arab and Islamic societies, died today Rabat at the age of 74, told Efe sociologist Naaman Guesus Sumaya.
Guesus stressed that the writer died in a clinic in Rabat after suffering an illness in the last three years but that has not affected scientific and intellectual activity, which remained in effect until this week.
“Fatima Mernisi is the first woman who had the great courage to address several issues considered taboo on the interpretation of the Koran and books Islamic tradition, “lamented the Moroccan sociologist.
Naaman Guessus called the deceased writer” a role model for generations to come “and recalled with his activity as a writer and essayist organized several forums and meetings academics on the rights of women in Islamic societies.
Fatima Mernisi, born in 1940 in Fez and raised in the atmosphere of a harem, published his first book “Sex, ideology and Islam” in 1975, which it was followed by several works as “Political Harem: The Prophet and Women” (1987) in which Mernisi analyzed all the tradition passed after the Prophet Muhammad with regard to women, or “Sultanas forgotten” (1990).
They also highlight his books “Dreams of Trespass: Memoirs of a harem girl” published in 1996 and “Love in Islam” published in 2008, with several essays, collections and interviews
The feminist sociologist won the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2003 he shared it with the American writer Susan Sontag.
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