The "Outside the Text" program in the episode (6/9/2020) shed light on the book "The Liberation of Women" by Qassem Amin, which sparked widespread controversy between writers and critics and in societies. Some saw that the book expresses boldness in proposing, while he was accused Others the writer bypassed many of the caveats.
The silent writer exposed him from the social problems rampant at that time, such as the high rate of divorce and early marriage, and the crises these two phenomena produced in the Egyptian family.
And the writer considered that abandoning the traditional veil at that time is one of the keys to resolving the crisis, which opened a door to the controversy that continues until now.
In this regard, Ibrahim al-Bayoumi, the advisor to the National Center for Social Research in Egypt, considered that the debate was ongoing over the status of women who were being deprived of several rights granted to them by Islam.
Hijab and modesty
The writer Qassem Amin said in the section on the social function that nothing prevents Egyptian women from working like the Western sciences, literature, fine arts, trade and industry except her ignorance and neglect of her upbringing, even if he takes her hand to the living community and directs her determination to keep up with them in vital work and use her perceptions and mental strength The body has become a living, active soul that produces in proportion to what it consumes, not as it is today a function that does not survive without the work of others.
For her part, journalist Faten Youssef went on to say that the demand for the liberation of women is often translated in eastern societies by dissolution, referring to the possibility of women becoming divorced or widowed, and wondering about how women will conduct their life affairs if it is accepted that they do not possess the ingredients for that.
She explained that the writer spoke about the part of the exaggeration in veiling and not the veil per se, where he compared the exaggerated lack of modesty in the West versus the modesty or the exaggerated veiling in Muslim societies.