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Asma Lamrabet

Morocco2 May 2023

Moroccan Activists Push for Sweeping Family Code Reforms, Including Decriminalization of Abortion

Moroccan personalities are calling on the Moroccan government, which is in the midst of preparing a reform of the Penal Code, to decriminalize extramarital sexual relations and abortion, make it mandatory for the father to recognize the child born of an extramarital relationship, give priority to financial sanctions over imprisonment for the offense of blasphemy, and abolish the death penalty, etc.

Morocco13 Mar 2021

Moroccan Author Calls for Feminist Reinterpretation of Islam to Empower Women

Moroccan writer Asma Lamrabet said Thursday, during a videoconference seminar organized on the occasion of International Women’s Day, that the fulfillment of women in Muslim countries depends on the reformist and feminist reading of Islam. She believes that this reform could be carried out through the implementation of an "ethico-spiritual" reading of Islam that breaks with the traditional patriarchal reading, which has led to "deep discriminatory religious practice" towards women.

Morocco8 Feb 2021

Moroccan Scholar Argues Islamic Principles Oppose Criminalizing Adultery

The Islamologist and researcher, Asma Lamrabet, calls for the repeal of Article 490 of the Penal Code which punishes extramarital sexual relations. According to her and the "Collective 490", a group that denounces the same article, this text is contrary to the morality of Islam and is not applicable in today’s Morocco.

Morocco20 Sept 2020

Feminist Scholar Explores Women's Roles in Prophet Muhammad's Life in New Book

"The Prophet of Islam and the Women in His Life" is the title of the new book by the essayist and feminist Asma Lamrabet, director of the Chair of Gender Studies at the Euro-Arab Foundation.

Morocco5 Apr 2020

Islamologist: COVID-19 Crisis May Spark Global Spiritual Awakening

"Institutionalized religions, carried by their official representatives, will surely have to review their copies in the post-crisis period," warns the Islamologist Asma Lamrabet . The coronavirus crisis has called into question the order of things. It has installed psychosis, uncertainty and dread within the community, subjected to confinement in the hope of a spiritual renewal.

Morocco23 Oct 2019

Moroccan Scholar Asma Lamrabet Renounces Veil, Cites Personal Conviction

In a post on her Facebook page, Asma Lamrabet, former Director of the Center for Women’s Studies in Islam, discussed the reasons behind her renunciation of wearing the veil.