The Area of Woman's Freedom from Wahhabism Perspective

Man and woman as human have similar duties and rights but based on the physical, moral and behavioral differences between man and woman, created by God, distinctive duties and rights have been introduced for woman. These distinctive duties and rights for woman has caused some extremist views about woman presented by some extremist groups who have very extremist theology, methodology and intellectual foundations. These extremist groups having a minimalistic attitude together with going to extremes, go beyond the frames of true religion and make a lot of limits for women. Wahhabism as one these extremist artificial Islamic groups in contemporary history, by prioritizing Naql (Narrations and Hadith) to Aql (reason) and preferring the authoritativeness of the prophet’s companions sayings (Hujjiyyat-e Qawl-e Sahaba) have decreased the nature of woman as an object so that they deny many individual, social and political rights of woman although these rights exist and have been recognized by true Islamic Sharia and revelation. In other words, they deprive woman of her natural and divine rights and bar her from different activities in different areas. The present paper by benefiting from an analytic and attributive method tries to explain the area of social and political freedom of women’s activities from Wahhabism perspective.