The subjectivity of Nawal Al-Sa'Dawi: Critique on gender relations in religious construction in Adab Am Qillah Adab Work

This writing examines three short stories in the short story anthology of Adab Am Qillah Adab by Nawāl Al-Sa’dāwī, namely: “Adab.Am Qillah Adab”, “al Umm al-Suwisriyyah al-Qātilah”, and “Qiṣṣah Fatḥiyyah al-Miṣriyyah”. The analysis focuses on Nawâl al-Sa’dâwî’s critique of religious constructions of gender relations. The subjectivity of Salvoj Žižek is the theory used and hermeneutics is the method of analysis. The purpose of the study is to find
out the reasoning behind the radical acts of Al-Sa’dāwī over her rejection of patriarchal religious constructions in her three short stories. The result of the analysis shows that the literary work is the explanation of the radicalization of the author’s actions, Al-Sa’dāwī, as a subject. Such radicalization is her rejection of the needy Symbolic (patriarchal religion construction) as her attempt to escape the Symbolic. Al-Sa’dāwī continues to move because the
subject is split and empty. Therefore, Al-Sa’dāwī makes an effort to seek full self-fulfillment to and approach The Real in order to kill the old tyrannical Symbolic and pick up the new Symbolic, which is the construction of a just
religion and liberate women.