SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS ON GENDER ISSUES: Lesson from Female Circumcision Fatwa of KUPI and FMPP

Nabiela Naily, Achmad Kemal Riza

Abstract


Among the contentious issues in contemporary Islamic law are gender related issues in which the progressive group within Nahdlatul Ulama differs sharply from the conservatives. This article discuss the recommendations of KUPI II congress (2nd congress of female Ulama) held in Jepara Central Java in November 2022 on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) which was challenged by the 38th FMPP (bahtsul masail forum of pesantren students) held in Kediri East Java in January 2023. Although there is difference in stipulating the term which might complicate the issue, KUPI delegitimizes all forms of dangerous FGM/C without medical reasons which is then sharply opposed by FMPP that insists that female circumcision is obligatory in Shafii maddhab observed by traditionalist Muslims in Indonesia. The two groups belong to Nahdatul Ulama background, but their opinions are in sharp contrast. KUPI is a continuation of progressive thought within Nahdlatul Ulama which has been nurtured since the 1970s, whereas FMPP is the true traditionalism bearer of Nahdlatal Ulama in many pesantren. Their encounter in various contested issues is predictably still going to happen in the future due to the insistence in holding their views.

Keywords


Gender; Female Genital Mutilation; Nahdatul Ulama; Indonesian Female Ulama

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DOI: 10.15642/JIIS.2025.19.1.239-262

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