https://ejournal.unida.gontor.ac.id/index.php/kalimah <p>Kalimah is journal of Religious Studies and Islamic Thought published by Faculty of Ushuluddin, University of Darussalam (UNIDA) Gontor, Indonesia. Kalimah is a semi annual journal published in March and September for the developing the scientific ethos. Editors accept scientific articles and result of research in accordance with its nature is a journal of Religious Studies and Islamic Thought. KALIMAH has been <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JC8x5llB7PTp9q7-UYiKTklOrymYgXpn/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accredited </a>by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Republic of Indonesia and indexed with the grade "S3" in Science and Technology Index (<a href="http://sinta2.ristekdikti.go.id/journals/detail?id=1999" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SINTA</a>). KALIMAH with registered ISSN <a href="http://issn.pdii.lipi.go.id/issn.cgi?daftar&amp;1180428750&amp;1&amp;&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1412-9590</a> (Print), ISSN <a href="http://issn.pdii.lipi.go.id/issn.cgi?daftar&amp;1445413783&amp;1&amp;&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2477-0396</a> (Online), and DOI <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.21111/kalimah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10.21111/kalimah</a>.</p> Fakultas Ushuluddin, Universitas Darussalam Gontor en-US Kalimah: Jurnal Studi Agama dan Pemikiran Islam 1412-9590 <p>The author whose published manuscript approved the following provisions:</p><ol><li>The right of publication of all material published in the journal / published in the Kalimah is held by the editorial board with the knowledge of the author (moral rights remain the author of the script).</li><li>The formal legal provisions for access to digital articles of this electronic journal are subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which means that Kalimah reserves the right to save, transmit media or format, Database), maintain, and publish articles without requesting permission from the Author as long as it keeps the Author's name as the owner of Copyright.</li><li>Printed and electronic published manuscripts are open access for educational, research and library purposes. In addition to these objectives, the editorial board shall not be liable for violations of copyright law.</li></ol> https://ejournal.unida.gontor.ac.id/index.php/kalimah/article/view/11357 <p><em>The first part of the 34^th verse of Surah An-Nisā, the verse on </em><em>qawwām</em><em>, explains the role of men as leaders for their wives and children. His position as the head of the family makes him responsible for providing for, protecting, nurturing and striving for the benefit of the family. However, in the early 20^t</em><em>^h</em><em> century, some </em><em>m</em><em>uslim feminists who were influenced by Western gender equality ideology rejected the interpretation of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> that made men the leader or head of the family. According to them, the interpretation of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> by classical mufas</em><em>s</em><em>irs, the majority of whom were men, was gender biased. This article tries to review the meaning and function of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> in the view of female mufa</em><em>s</em><em>sirs with the aim of presenting a commensurate argument for feminist criticism of the interpretation of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> by classical mufa</em><em>s</em><em>sirs. This study uses a library research approach that contains the meaning and function of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> from many figures, but the focus is on the interpretation of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> from female mufas</em><em>s</em><em>irs. The results of this study reveal that the interpretation of female mufas</em><em>s</em><em>irs regarding the verse on </em><em>qawwām</em><em> is not different from the classical mufas</em><em>s</em><em>irs. This means that the classical mufas</em><em>s</em><em>irs' interpretation of </em><em>qawwām</em><em> is not gender biased as feminists claim.</em></p> Muhammad Fajar Adyatama Sujiat Zubaidi Saleh Nofriyanto Fachri Khoerudin Copyright (c) 2024 Muhammad Fajar Adyatama, Sujiat Zubaidi Saleh, Nofriyanto, Fachri Khoerudin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-06-05 2024-06-05 21 2 147 184 10.21111/klm.v21i2.11357