Musawah

Musawah ('equality'; in Arabic: ) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family and family laws, led by Islamic feminists "seeking to reclaim Islam and the Qur'an for themselves", applying progressive interpretations of sacred texts. Their interpretations are often referred to as feminist tafsir. The name "Musawah" comes from an Arabic word that translates as "equality". Musawah was founded in 2009.

==Context and history== Women scholars started applying Islamic feminist interpretations since late 19th century. 1990s, triggered by an increase in the movement of women in the fight for women's human rights internationally, such as the World Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995 which gave birth to a commitment to build people through gender equality and the CEDAW (Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women) which gave birth to a commitment to eliminate discrimination. By late 20th century research in theoretical Islamic feminism developed in to full fledged methodical science of interpretation called feminist tafsir or Hermeneutics of feminism in Islam; to promote the ideas of gender-justice and gender equality by reinterpreting to enable true sense of Islamic egalitarian values and subsequently developed in to Muslim women's active movements .