Women In Islamic Societies

Author : Bo Utas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315513928

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First published in 1983, this edited collection is based on contributions at a Scandinavian symposium on the place of women in Islamic society. It offers perspectives which illuminate our understanding of social relationships and structures pertaining to a vast number of the world’s population dispersed throughout Asia and Africa. Sociological and anthropological investigations of social organization and the behavioural patterns provided in these papers demonstrate that the status of women, their rights, duties and control over property, their body, the degree of seclusion and veiling, vary considerably. Overall, this collection of papers show that the relationship between Islam and the everyday lives of Muslim women is a complex picture, one that is confronted with a considerable range of interpretations of laws and traditions. This book will be of particular interest to those studying women and Islam, anthropology, religion and sociology.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 14750 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315449555

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Routledge Library Editions: Women in Islamic Societies by Various Authors Pdf

Women in Islamic societies are often seen as a hidden and homogenous group. The volumes in this set, originally published between 1960 and 1983, explore the wide variety of women’s roles in a range of Islamic societies, from Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Kurdistan to Malaysia, West Africa, Iran and Turkey. Due to their anthropological focus, each book pays particular attention to the everyday lives of women in these regions, including their agency and power within their own communities. The titles also explore women’s changing roles in the modernising Muslim world of the 20th century. This set will be of interest to those studying women, gender, Islam and anthropology.

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415324211

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Women and Islam: Women's movements in Muslim societies 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 : Freda Hussain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000155952

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Muslim Women (RLE Women and Religion) by Freda Hussain Pdf

The history of Islam and the changing role-performance of Muslim women, given the various interpretations of the belief system of Islam, are described. It is the contention of the authors that it is these various interpretations which have given rise to the conflict between the ideal and contextual realities. This book also includes papers which investigate the problems of feminism and employment for Muslim women, as well as the educational and legal aspects of their lives in contemporary Islamic society. First published in 1984.

Author : Herbert L. Bodman (Jr.),Nayyirah Tawḥīdī
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1555875785

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Women in Muslim Societies by Herbert L. Bodman (Jr.),Nayyirah Tawḥīdī Pdf

Authors from a variety of disciplines assess the issues facing women in Muslim societies not only in the Middle East but also in Africa and Asia. They stress the importance of historical context, local customs and policies in defining the status of Muslim women, and examine how women are coping with challenges such as modernity and conservative reaction.

Author : Ruth Ulrich
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 1634820142

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Women in Islamic Societies by Ruth Ulrich Pdf

Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the developed West. This book provides a literature review of recent empirical social science scholarship that addresses the actualities of women's lives in Muslim societies across multiple geographic regions. This book also discusses the differences in the Sunnis and Shiites in Islam.

Author : Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815655435

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Beyond the Exotic by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol Pdf

Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Muslim women have been depicted as different, and by exoticizing (orientalizing) them—or Islamic society in general—"they" have been dealt with outside of general women’s history and regarded as having little to contribute to the writing of world history or to the life of their sisters worldwide. By approaching widely used sources with different questions and methodologies, and by using new or little-used material (with much primary research), this book redresses these deficiencies. Scholars revisit and reevaluate scripture and scriptural interpretation; church records involving non-Muslim women of the Arab world; archival court records dating from the present back to the Ottoman period; and the oral and material culture and its written record, including oral history, textbooks, sufi practices, and the politics of dress. By deconstructing the past, these scholars offer fresh perspectives on women’s roles and aspirations in Middle East societies.

Author : Yasmin Saikia,Chad Haines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786739841

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Women and Peace in the Islamic World by Yasmin Saikia,Chad Haines Pdf

How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new pathways of peace in the contemporary world.

Author : Bo Utas
Publisher : Routledge/Curzon
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 0700701540

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Women in Islamic Societies by Bo Utas Pdf

Author : D. Fairchild Ruggles
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791493076

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Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies by D. Fairchild Ruggles Pdf

The first to combine the study of representation, gender theory, and Muslim women from a historical and geographical perspective, this book examines where women have represented themselves in art, architecture, and the written word in the Muslim world. The authors explore the gendering and implicit power relations present in the positioning of subject and object in the visual field and look specifically at occasions when women publicly adopted the stance of the viewer, speaker, writer, or patron. Contributors include Ellison Banks Findly, Elizabeth Brown Frierson, Salah M. Hassan, Nancy Micklewright, Leslie Peirce, Kishwar Rizvi, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Yasser Tabbaa, Lucienne Thys-Senoçak, and Ethel Sara Wolper.

Author : Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions
Publisher : Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000156085

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Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies by Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions Pdf

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith,Kathleen M. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198039556

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Muslim Women in America by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith,Kathleen M. Moore Pdf

The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. The rights of Muslim women have become part of the Western political agenda, often perpetuating a stereotype of universal oppression. Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims. In their public and private lives, Muslim women are actively negotiating what it means to be a woman and a Muslim in an American context. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore offer a much-needed survey of the situation of Muslim American women, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. Centering on Muslims in America, the book investigates Muslim attempts to form a new "American" Islam. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, childrearing, conversion, and workplace discrimination are addressed. The authors also look at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque institutions. A final chapter asks whether 9/11 will prove to have been a watershed moment for Muslim women in America. This groundbreaking work presents the diversity of Muslim American women and demonstrates the complexity of the issues. Impeccably researched and accessible, it broadens our understanding of Islam in the West and encourages further exploration into how Muslim women are shaping the future of American Islam.

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190283261

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Islam, Gender, and Social Change by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,John L. Esposito Pdf

For several decades, the Muslim world has experienced a religious resurgence. The reassertion of Islam in personal and political life has taken many forms, from greater attention to religious practice to the emergence of Islamic organizations, movements, and institutions. One of the most controversial and emotionally charged aspects of this revival has been its effect on women in Muslim societies. The essays collected in this book place this issue in its historical context and offer case studies of Muslim societies from North Africa to Southeast Asia. These fascinating studies shed light on the impact of the Islamic resurgence on gender issues in Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Oman, Bahrain, the Philippines, and Kuwait. Taken together, the essays reveal the wide variety that exists among Muslim societies and believers, and the complexity of the issues under consideration. They show that new things are happening for women across the Islamic world, and are in many cases being initiated by women themselves. The volume as a whole militates against the stereotype of Muslim women as repressed, passive, and without initiative, while acknowledging the very real obstacles to women's initiatives in most of these societies.

Author : Fatima Mernissi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253204232

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Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition by Fatima Mernissi Pdf

"Required reading . . . " —Elizabeth Fernea, The University of Texas at Austin "If a reader were to select only one book in order to gain insight into women's status and prospects in Islamic society, this study should be the one chosen for its clarity, honesty, depth of knowledge and thought-provoking qualities." —Arab Book World In this expanded and updated edition, with a new introduction on Muslim women and fundamentalism, Mernissi argues that Islamic fundamentalism is in part a defense against recent changes in sex roles and perceptions of sexual identity.