Penser l’universel à travers le féminisme islamique

Abstract

This article seeks to understand the building of theoretical archive asone of the main challenges in transnational feminist solidarity. As identified inthe works of Lugones, Spivak, and Mohanty, we consider Western hegemonicknowledge production as inadequate for representing the interests of white femi-nists and feminists of color alike and therefore examine the practices of know-ledge production from a minority point of view, that of Islamic feminism. Bydoing so, we engage in breaking up dominant binary approaches in favor of adecolonial point of view. The key point of our examination of Islamic feminism,however, will rely less on the praxis of knowledge production, but on its trans-mission and the way it offers an alternative way of bridging theory and action.Since Islamic feminism can be conceptualised as a transnational feminism, itseeks to consolidate the categories of global and local, which will be our key pointabout how to think universality in feminism.