Women And Islam

Author : Leila Ahmed
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300258172

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Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed Pdf

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

Author : Abdur Raheem Kidwai
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847741493

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Women in Islam by Abdur Raheem Kidwai Pdf

Women in Islam is an attractive book of simple compilation of quotations from the Qur’an and Hadith collections that refer to or address women specifically. It engages the reader in a moment of reflection on the Islamic view of womanhood: her existence as a creation of Allah, her role as a positive stakeholder in building a God-conscious society and her capacity for attaining proximity with Allah.

Author : Fatima Mernissi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 818896512X

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Women and Islam by Fatima Mernissi Pdf

In this book the author, who is both a feminist and a Muslim, aims to shed light on the status of women in Islam by examining and reassessing the literary sources as far back as seventh-century Islam. She portrays how, far from being the oppressor of women that his detractors have claimed, the Prophet upheld the equality of all true believers. Sifting through the mass of literature surrounding the life, works and teachings of Muhammad, some surprising facts emerge such as descriptions of how the wives of the Prophet discussed politics with him, and even went to war. Later restrictions and impositions on women such as the veil were never, she finds, the intention of the Prophet.

Author : Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 1591440386

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Great Women of Islam by Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar Pdf

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674727502

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Author : Asma Barlas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477315927

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Believing Women in Islam by Asma Barlas Pdf

Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur’an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer’s reading of the Qur’an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings. Beginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Muslims came to read inequality and patriarchy into the Qur’an to justify existing religious and social structures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur’an are a function of who has read it, how, and in what contexts. She goes on to reread the Qur’an’s position on a variety of issues in order to argue that its teachings do not support patriarchy. To the contrary, Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur’an affirms the complete equality of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to theorize radical sexual equality from within the framework of its teachings. This new view takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices or Western media stereotypes. For this revised edition of Believing Women in Islam, Asma Barlas has written two new chapters—“Abraham’s Sacrifice in the Qur’an” and “Secular/Feminism and the Qur’an”—as well as a new preface, an extended discussion of the Qur’an’s “wife-beating” verse and of men’s presumed role as women’s guardians, and other updates throughout the book.

Author : H. Jawad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230503311

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The Rights of Women in Islam by H. Jawad Pdf

It has been argued that Islam liberated Muslim women by granting them full rights as citizens. Yet in reality we see that women have long been subjected to both cultural and political oppression. Instances such as forced marriages are sadly common in the Muslim World, as are restrictions on education and on their role in the labour force.

Author : Deniz Kandiyoti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349211784

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Women, Islam and the State by Deniz Kandiyoti Pdf

Political projects of modern nation-states, the specificities of their nationalist histories and the positioning of Islam vis-a-vis diverse nationalisms are addressed in this volume with respect to their implications and consequences for women through a series of case studies.

Author : Nicholas Awde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136808210

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Women in Islam by Nicholas Awde Pdf

Collection of major references to women in the Quran and Hadiths, the two central Pillars of Islam on which Islamic legislation and social practice are based. Topics covered include Hygiene, Divorce, Marriage, Sex and Chastity, Inheritance, and Status and Rights.

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 041532419X

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Women and Islam: Images and realities by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

This three-volume interdisciplinary collection is of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.The collection offers the most influential writings in the field by both renowned scholars as well as those by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender and includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.Titles also available in this series include, Shamanism (March 2004, 3 volumes, 395) and the forthcoming titles Childhood (2005, 4 volumes, c.495), Gender (2005, 4 volumes, c.495) and Knowledge (2005, 4 volumes, c.495).

Author : Jamillah Karim
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814748107

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American Muslim Women by Jamillah Karim Pdf

"Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideas of racial harmony amd equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Hossein Kamaly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786076328

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A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly Pdf

Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi championed the rights of women and girls, and became the first Muslim woman judge in modern history. After the Gestapo took down a Resistance network in Paris, British spy Noor Inayat Khan found herself the only undercover radio operator left in that city. In this unique history, Hossein Kamaly celebrates the lives and achievements of twenty-one extraordinary women in the story of Islam, from the formative days of the religion to the present.

Author : Mohammad Shabbir Khan
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8170247322

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Status of Women in Islam by Mohammad Shabbir Khan Pdf

The Present Book Deals With The Status Of Women In Islam. It Has Been Divided Into Two Parts-The First Deals With The Status Of Women As Per Tenets Of Islam In The Family Structure And In The Society And Economy; And The Other, With The Status Of Muslim Women In Our Country. The Problems Specifically Highlighted Are: The Acquisition Of Knowledge By Muslim Women, Their Participation In The Process Of Consultation, Their Rights And Obligations In Regard To Social Life Of Muslim Community And Their Role In Economic Activities.

Author : Tansin Benn,Gertrud Pfister,Haifaa Jawad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134008506

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Muslim Women and Sport by Tansin Benn,Gertrud Pfister,Haifaa Jawad Pdf

Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world. The book presents an overview of current research into constructs of gender, the role of religion and the importance of situation, and looks closely at what Islam has to say about women’s participation in sport and what Muslim women themselves have to say about their participation in sport. It highlights the challenges and opportunities for women in sport in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries, utilizing a series of extensive case-studies in various countries which invite the readers to conduct cross-cultural comparisons. Material on Iraq, Palestine and Bosnia and Herzegovina provides rare insights into the impact of war on sporting activities for women. The book also seeks to make important recommendations for improving access to sport for girls and women from Muslim communities. Muslim Women and Sport confronts many deeply held stereotypes and crosses those commonly quoted boundaries between ‘Islam and the West’ and between ‘East and West’. It makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the interrelationships between sport, religion, gender, culture and policy.

Author : Abdul Ghaffar Hasan
Publisher : Darussalam
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 9960897516

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The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam by Abdul Ghaffar Hasan Pdf