Aisha Research Paper

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support in her opposition to Ali. Aisha’s influence at the beginning of the conflict was so significant, that some scholars go as far as claiming that if not for her, it is possible there would have been no united opposition against Ali’s accession as fourth Caliph among the Meccans. Aisha quickly allied herself with two of Muhammad’s companions, Talha and Zubayr. What followed was a clash between Aisha’s and Ali’s forces in Basra, in what is now referred to as the Battle of the Camel. The name of the battle only already reflects Aisha’s importance and key role: It is a reference to Aisha’s position on the battlefield. Aisha led her troops sitting on the back of a large camel, protected by armored panels. It is said that in one of the final moments in the battle, Ali ordered his men to kill the camel, which in turn symbolized the end of the combat. Though Ali’s forces eventually triumphed, the battle holds an important status in early Islamic history.
One of the most important aspects of the Battle of the Camel was that the confrontation between Aisha’s and Ali’s army was the first time Muslims slaughtered other Muslims in warfare; The battle is considered to be the first schism within Islam. Moreover, some scholars …show more content…
She claims that women’s autonomy and sociopolitical participation were actually curtailed with the establishment of Islam. An example she uses to prove so was the shift from matrilineal, uxorilocal marriage practices (common in the Jahiliyyah), to Patrilineal marriages practices, introduced by Islam. Though a matrilineal society does not necessarily connote into a feminist society, Ahmed argues that the shift to patrilineal marriages did “fundamentally reformulated the nexus of sexuality and power between men and women.” Further, Ahmed mentions the introduction of seclusion (first applied only to Muhammad’s wives), and how it curtailed the participation of women in community affairs and the political
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