Gender in the familyFrom the point of view of Islamic sociology

This paper deals with the theoretical analysis of the factors and consequences of gender relationships in the structure and functions of the family with the approach of Islamic sociology. In order to better introduce the Islamic approach, which is the main purpose of the paper, on the one hand, the general and special foundations of this approach have briefly been proposed in the theoretical framework part.   The general foundations refer to the foundations of Islamic sociology in all areas and the special foundations refer to the foundations of Islamic sociology in the field of family and gender studies. On the other hand, during the discussions, by concise reference to the sociological views, especially the feminist approaches, the possibility of some comparisons between the Islamic and the competing approaches has been provided. The results show that Islamic sociology in the introduced model has no claim of having unique features in terms of empirical methods and statistical techniques, and its main features should be sought in the theoretical aspects including explanatory, interpretative and normative dimensions.