The Formation of Iraqi Woman- Oriented Mosque Preaching between Moderation and Extremism

Abstract

The This research investigates the sort of the post-2003 mosque-delivered preachers' religious discourse towards woman, whether it addressed woman's status and suffering or it has taken a hardline stance. The research gathers, analyses, and compares several contemporary Iraqi mosque-delivered preaching’s in an academically-driven non-critical approach. Mosque preaching’s are free to be critical of women but they should not be overgeneralized nor should be taken for granted. The research, therefore, questions the motives and reasons underlying such prejudiced discourse, no that some mosque preachers underestimate women labelling them house-restricted persons. On the other hand, some women took anti-religious, anti-clerical norm-freeing counter-tradition stances, as for example in some pro-feminist social media posts. Such pro-feminist anti-men attitudes will make follow-up models for the coming young generation of women. The research, accordingly, compares the two opposite sides by attempting an analytical model of anslysis, followed by discussions with an elaboration on previous literature.