Nowadays one of the most difficult and controversial issues is the diversity of the status of women in Islamic and Western legal culture. However, the range of Muslim women’s rights depends on the level of orthodoxy in particular Islamic states. Moreover many Arab women are aware of their inferiority to men in the family and in the society and try to alter this state of facts, on the other hand many of them still do not realise that they have privileges resulting from being an independent individual. It must be stressed that at the turn of the XIX century in Muslim society the emancipation movement evolved which enhanced women’s status in their culture. Muslim feminism opposes humiliating, cruelty, and sex discrimination practices which are based on tradition. Muslim feminism is not Islamic feminism (though both belong to the group of religious feminism). The first, fights for discontinuance of constant depreciation of women, it reflects on the position of women in the Islamic society. These activities are at the level of the Koran, hadiths and law. By contrast, Islamic feminism does not question sharia, but it demands equality for women in the scope of religious practices, e.g. participation of women in public prayers.