سياسة الغيظ: تجربة المرابطات في المسجد الأقصى في القدس (2000-2022)

Abstract

Religious Muslim women started appearing in the public arena in the 1990s, demonstrating their objection towards Israel’s control over the holy sites using tools that served the Palestinian national struggle. In recent years, religious Muslim and Palestinian women are utilizing the politics of protest to challenge Israel’s authority over the Al Aqsa Mosque, simultaneously demanding a more equal status for themselves in Palestinian society. Their provocation of Israeli police at the mosque is a phenomenon with no precedent in modern Islamic history. This phenomenon indicates a far deeper transformation that Palestinian society is undergoing regarding the relationship between men and women, and the role change now claimed by women, in defending the honor of Muslim men.

The politics of provocation opened the door for the Murabitat to influence the public space and highlight the role of religious Muslim women from different backgrounds.

Muslim women defended Al-Aqsa as a Muslim religious identity sample within a popular political-religious movement in which women participate alongside men.

The Palestinian Murabitat phenomenon has distinct characteristics compared to Islamic feminists and activists in Islamic movements. Muslim women explained their Ribat in Al-Aqsa Mosque through their experience and understanding of the role of women in politics and society, and without relying on a formal religious reference.