The Making Of A Salafi Muslim Woman

Author : Anabel Inge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190611675

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The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman by Anabel Inge Pdf

The spread of Salafism--often referred to as "Wahhabism"--in the West has intrigued and alarmed observers since the attacks of 9/11. Many see it as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that condones the subjugation of women and fuels Jihadist extremism. This view depicts Salafi women as the hapless victims of a fanatical version of Islam. Yet in Britain, growing numbers of educated women--often converts or from less conservative Muslim backgrounds-are actively choosing to embrace Salafism's literalist beliefs and strict regulations, including heavy veiling, wifely obedience, and seclusion from non-related men. How do these young women reconcile such difficult demands with their desire for university education, fulfilling careers, and suitable husbands? How do their beliefs affect their love lives and other relationships? And why do they become Salafi in the first place? Anabel Inge has gained unprecedented access to Salafi women's groups in the United Kingdom to provide the first in-depth account of their lives. Drawing on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, she examines why Salafism is attracting so many young Somalis, Afro-Caribbean converts, and others. But she also reveals the personal dilemmas they confront. This ground-breaking, lucid, and richly detailed book will be of vital interest to scholars, policy-makers, journalists, and general readers.

Author : Anabel Inge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0190611707

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The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman by Anabel Inge Pdf

Salafism often called 'Wahhabism, ' is widely seen as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that subjugates women, yet growing numbers of young British women, many of them converts or from less conservative Muslim backgrounds, are actively embracing it. With unprecedented access to Salafi women's groups in the UK, Anabel Inge provides an in-depth account of their lives, probing the reasons for their conversion and their subsequent dilemmas and difficulties

Author : Robert W. Jenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190214609

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A Theology in Outline by Robert W. Jenson Pdf

A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live? began with an undergraduate course taught by Robert W. Jenson at Princeton University in the spring of 2008. Based on a series of twenty-three course lectures, it offers a concise and accessible overview of Christian theology while retaining the atmosphere of Jenson's classroom. Much as does Jenson's Systematic Theology, A Theology in Outline treats a standard sequence of doctrines in Christian theology--God, Trinity, creation, humanity, sin, salvation, church, among others. However, its organizing principle and leitmotiv are less traditional. Reflecting his recent interest in theological interpretation of scripture, Jenson frames the whole of Christian theology as a response to the question posed to the prophet Ezekiel: "Son of man, can these bones live?" For Jenson, to ask this question is to ask whether Christian theology itself is a pile of dead bones. Can the story that God lives with his people be told today? From first to last the chapters of this book proceed under the impelling pressure of this question. They thus comprise a single sequence of illustrative conversations for the purpose of introducing beginners to Christian theology.

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190496029

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Muted Modernists by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges this stereotype as she examines a long tradition of engaging with modernism that gathered momentum with the Arab uprisings and incurred the wrath of both the regime and its Wahhabi supporters. With this nascent modernism, constructions of new divine politics, anchored in a rigorous reinterpretation of foundational Islamic texts and civil society activism are emerging in a context where authoritarian rule prefers its advocates to remain muted. The author challenges scholarly wisdom on Islamism in general and blurs the boundaries between secular and religious politics.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie,Beth Baron
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300157468

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Women in Middle Eastern History by Nikki R. Keddie,Beth Baron Pdf

This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival records, to the Traditions (hadith) of the Prophet and imaginative works like the Thousand and One Nights, to modern writings by Middle Eastern women and by Western writers. They show that gender boundaries in the Middle East have been neither fixed nor immutable: changes in family patterns, religious rituals, socio-economic necessity, myth and ideology—and not least, women’s attitudes—have expanded or circumscribed women’s roles and behavior through the ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : OCLC:1158868189

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The Ideal Muslimah by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lynn Davidman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199380503

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Becoming Un-Orthodox by Lynn Davidman Pdf

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of danger that come of leaving a highly bounded enclave community. Many of those interviewed spoke of feeling marginal in their own communities; of strain in their homes due to death, divorce, or their parents' profound religious differences; experienced sexual, physical, or verbal abuse; or expressed an acute awareness of gender inequality, the dissimilar lives of their secular relatives, and forbidden television shows, movies, websites, and books. Becoming Un-Orthodox draws much-needed attention to the vital role of the body and bodily behavior in religious practices. It is through physical rituals and routines that the members of a religion, particularly a highly conservative one, constantly create, perform, and reinforce the culture of the religion. Because of the many observances and daily rituals required by their faith, Hasidic defectors are an exemplary case study for exploring the centrality of the body in shaping, maintaining, and shedding religions. This book provides both a moving narrative of the struggles of Hasidic defectors and a compelling call for greater collective understanding of the complex significance of the body in society.

Author : Moyra Dale,Cathy Hine,Carol Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1506475965

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When Women Speak... by Moyra Dale,Cathy Hine,Carol Walker Pdf

The twentieth century should be remembered in missions as the time when women got lost. Over that time, the voices of women missionaries, leaders, and facilitators of new Christian movements were all too often excluded from missiological discourse and strategic mission discussion. It is hoped that this book signals a revival in the contribution of women to mission in a way that values what they have to offer.

Author : Amina Wadud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198029434

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Qur'an and Woman by Amina Wadud Pdf

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal interpretation and implementation of the Qu'ran that have kept women oppressed. For many, the way to reform is the reexamination and reinterpretation of religious texts. Qu'ran and Woman contributes a gender inclusive reading to one of the most fundamental disciplines in Islamic thought, Qu'ranic exegesis. Wadud breaks down specific texts and key words which have been used to limit women's public and private role, even to justify violence toward Muslim women, revealing that their original meaning and context defy such interpretations. What her analysis clarifies is the lack of gender bias, precedence, or prejudice in the essential language of the Qur'an. Despite much Qu'ranic evidence about the significance of women, gender reform in Muslim society has been stubbornly resisted. Wadud's reading of the Qu'ran confirms women's equality and constitutes legitimate grounds for contesting the unequal treatment that women have experienced historically and continue to experience legally in Muslim communities. The Qu'ran does not prescribe one timeless and unchanging social structure for men and women, Wadud argues lucidly, affirming that the Qu'ran holds greater possibilities for guiding human society to a more fulfilling and productive mutual collaboration between men and women than as yet attained by Muslims or non-Muslims.

Author : Karin van Nieuwkerk
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780292773769

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Women Embracing Islam by Karin van Nieuwkerk Pdf

Many Westerners view Islam as a religion that restricts and subordinates women in both private and public life. Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity and Western secularism? What benefits do they gain by converting, and what are the costs? How do Western women converts live their new Islamic faith, and how does their conversion affect their families and communities? How do women converts transmit Islamic values to their children? These are some of the questions that Women Embracing Islam seeks to answer. In this vanguard study of gender and conversion to Islam, leading historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and theologians investigate why non-Muslim women in the United States, several European countries, and South Africa are converting to Islam. Drawing on extensive interviews with female converts, the authors explore the life experiences that lead Western women to adopt Islam, as well as the appeal that various forms of Islam, as well as the Nation of Islam, have for women. The authors find that while no single set of factors can explain why Western women are embracing Islamic faith traditions, some common motivations emerge. These include an attraction to Islam's high regard for family and community, its strict moral and ethical standards, and the rationality and spirituality of its theology, as well as a disillusionment with Christianity and with the unrestrained sexuality of so much of Western culture.

Author : Khalida Messaoudi,Elisabeth Schemla
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216571

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Unbowed by Khalida Messaoudi,Elisabeth Schemla Pdf

2. The Islam of My Youth

Author : Miriam Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135959432

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Women Claim Islam by Miriam Cooke Pdf

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.

Author : Shiraz Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190694722

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Salafi-Jihadism by Shiraz Maher Pdf

No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the specter of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. As the Levant has imploded and millenarian radicals claim to have revived a Caliphate based on the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, the need for a nuanced and accurate understanding of jihadist beliefs has never been greater. Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgencies of the 1990s and the 9/11 wars. What emerges is the story of a pragmatic but resilient warrior doctrine that often struggles - as so many utopian ideologies do - to consolidate the idealism of theory with the reality of practice. His ground-breaking introduction to salafi-jihadism recalibrates our understanding of the ideas underpinning one of the most destructive political philosophies of our time by assessing classical works from Islamic antiquity alongside those of contemporary ideologues. Packed with refreshing and provocative insights, Maher explains how war and insecurity engendered one of the most significant socio-religious movements of the modern era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004425576

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Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity by Anonim Pdf

This book gives an account of the ways in which Islamic traditions have contributed to the construction of modern Muslim selfhoods. They underpin Eisenstadt’s argument that religious traditions can play a pivotal role in the historically different interpretations of modernity.

Author : Khaled Abou El Fadl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780744681

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Speaking in God's Name by Khaled Abou El Fadl Pdf

Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim authorities at the expense of certain groups, including women. Khaled Abou El Fadl cites a series of injustices in Islamic society and ultimately proposes a return to the original ethics at the heart of the Muslim legal system.