A Sociological Analysis on the Diversity of Women's Movements in the Islamic Middle Eastern Countries

This article has been formalized by cross national analysis method. It tries to present an analysis on the most famous thoughts about identity of women in Islamic countries. In these countries, despite the dominance of the Islamic culture there are diverse and conflicting theoretical approaches concerning women. According to Honneth theory, women recognition would be valuable in countries where they have high GDI and GEM. In addition, because of political structure, part of women identity is denied due to Social contempt (ignoring the recognition or misrecognition). Based on what was said there are two approaches: 1) the idea of recognizing the identity of Islamism women in semi or not democratic Secular countries. 2) the idea of recognizing the modern women in semi or not democratic Sharia countries. The results of this study show while Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia have good conditions to expand Islamic feminism, Iran, Lebanon, Bahrain and, United Arabic Emirates are suitable countries to shape modern and post modern feminism. In some countries such as Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, because of the gap between human development and gender development there is no movement for recognition.