Visited By Egyptian Cendekiawan Nahla El-Saidy, Vice President Ma'ruf Suggests The Formation Of A Global Women's Assembly

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin received Egyptian scholar Nahla Sabry El-Saidy, in Jakarta, Thursday (21/12/2023). BETWEEN/HO-BPMI Setwapres

JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin received an Egyptian female scholar, Nahla Sabry El-Saidy at the official residence of the Vice President, Jakarta, Thursday, December 21.

Nahla told Vice President Ma'ruf that she previously attended the Asia-African and Latin American Religious Moderation Conference which was held in Bandung, West Java, Wednesday, December 20.

Nahla, who also serves as Director of Markaz Tathwir at the Al-Azhar Foreign Student and Student Development Center, expressed his thoughts that he conveyed in the international forum.

According to him, as an effort to provide space for women in exploring potential to contribute to finding solutions to global issues, as well as supporting gender equality in accordance with Islamic sharia, it is necessary to form a Global Women's Ulema Council, including in Indonesia.

"In Pakistan a panel like this has been formed, I hope that in all Muslim-based countries (including Indonesia) it will also form the same assembly, because each location has different problems," said Nahla in a press release from the Setwapres, Thursday, December 21, which was confiscated by Antara.

Although currently many women are already in important positions, Nahla assesses that there are still many who do not understand the real concept of women in Islam.

"In the forum that I attended, there were still those who conveyed the equality of women who were wrong. What I hope for here is unbiased and not wrongdoing equality," Nahla explained.

"We hope that this female assembly will map and formulate a Muslim way of thinking that is in accordance with Islam," he said.

Responding to this, the Vice President supported the formation of the Global Women's Assembly. The Vice President hopes that Al-Azhar can initiate the concept and thought of forming the assembly, so that technically it can be done by parties in Indonesia.

I hope women understand various problems. We have to prepare great women who in addition to master religion, also understand the economy. We are even focusing on the sharia economic sector. I want many women who understand very well (about the sharia economy)," hoped the Vice President.

On this occasion, the Vice President also expressed his appreciation to Al-Azhar for giving him an award for his contribution to the development of Islam wasathiyyah.

"I am very happy that I received an award from Syaikhul Al-Azhar about Islam wasathiyyah. (The award was given) directly from Sheikh Al-Azhar," he said.

For information, Nahla Sabry El-Saidy was selected as the 50 most influential women in Egypt, because she was considered to have contributed a lot to the development of the Al-Azhar foreign student learning process.

Nahla is the daughter of Al-Azhar cleric Sheikh Sabry Qutb El-Saidy. She was once appointed Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Women in Cairo and Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Sciences for Foreign Students in Nasr City in January 2019. She was among the first woman Al-Azhar appointed in Egyptian history in this position.

Nahla is a female cleric who opposes underage marriage and supports women's journey without mahram. She gave birth to many books, including Adwa Al-Bayan and Al-Azhar in the Past and the Current.

Present to accompany the Vice President in this meeting were the Vice President's Special Staff for General Affairs Masykuri Abdillah, and Assistant to the Special Staff of the Vice President Sholahudin Al-Aiyub.