{"id":1443,"date":"2025-12-07T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:11:07","slug":"35-25-womens-equality-in-islam-speech-by-islamic-theologian-riffat-hassan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"#35-25 Women’s Equality in Islam\u00a0–\u00a0Speech by Islamic theologian Riffat Hassan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Riffat Hassan (born 1943) is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur’an.\u00a0\u00a0In this speech recorded at the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Huairou, China, in 1995, she explains that in the Koran women and men are considered created as equals; but Islamic commentators picked up the concept from other religions of women being created from a crooked rib, thus starting a trend for considering women subordinate to men across the Islamic world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-35-25RiffatHassan-28_49-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Riffat Hassan (born 1943) is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur’an.\u00a0\u00a0In this speech recorded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,450,39,150,156,281,36,42,382,268,60,186,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-equality","category-feminism","category-history","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-regional","category-religion","category-sexism","category-society-and-culture","category-theology","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}