PERSPEKTIF KESETARAAN DAN KEADILAN GENDER HUSEIN MUHAMMAD DALAM SILANG PENDAPAT KHITAN PEREMPUAN

Abstract

This article discusses circumcision from a feminist Kiai perspective, Husein Muhammad. This qualitative descriptive study uses a literature study style and uses a gender approach. The results of this study indicate that Husein Muhammad interprets the law of female circumcision by prioritizing the principles of justice and gender equality. For him, circumcision is purely the result of construction by some classical Muslim scholars because nothing in the Qur'an or Hadith can be used as argumentation that indicates its obligation of circumcision for women. In addition, female circumcision damages health, which means this practice is also forbidden in Islam.