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It is a mistake to seek in religion the justification for equality between women and men. These attempts were made in the 70s in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The three Arab countries where the reformist ones and had more representatives and greater impact. Numerous feminist associations claimed the right of women to access the public sphere and demanded the repeal of the most discriminatory laws, such as repudiation or polygamy. To gain greater legitimacy in countries that maintained Islam as a state religion, secular feminism put aside its universalism and sought to partner with religion, trying to find feminist elements in the Qur’an, as in the explanation offered by the Algerian lawyer Wassyla Tamzali.