• Shabeer Ahmad Khan

Women have been conceptualized as marginalized, inferior, and acquiescent and all that are not men. In other words, they have been stereotyped as ‘inferior other’ to men. The fact that this consciousness of women being marginalised, was raised in the West with the dawn of movements like feminism in the twentieth century, hence not that far from the present, the history of Islamic insights about the condition of women(as marginalized) dates back to fourteen hundred years. Islam did not only highlight the pathetic condition of women (in the erstwhile Arab specifically), but also brought remedies to the ills of society against them; it plucked the roots of those traditions that were against women and their honour. Prophet of Islam (Peace be upon Him) gave women respect and dignity, and they started to live the life of true freedom. In this paper, I will analyse if there is a scope for women to become leaders of a commune, state and nation in the in the light of holy Quran, Hadith, the precious sayings of prophet (Peace be upon Him), and other legitimate works of Islam.

Islamic canon, inferior other, marginalized, dignity, holy Quran and Hadith

"Analysing the Scope of Women as Leaders: In the Light of Islamic Canon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.997-1003, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002141.pdf

"Analysing the Scope of Women as Leaders: In the Light of Islamic Canon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp997-1003, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002141.pdf