Women Islam And Modernity

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134331550

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In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia, the book explores the complex factors that affect how young Indonesian women form their sexual subjectivities, discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how the cultural context, including other factors besides Islam, simultaneously influence the ways in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health. It demonstrates that Islam is neither alone in trying to control female sexuality, nor entirely successful in doing so.

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134331567

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Women, Islam and Modernity by Linda Rae Bennett Pdf

This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780415329293

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Women, Islam and Modernity by Linda Rae Bennett Pdf

This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.

Author : Leila Ahmed
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Ousseina D. Alidou
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299212131

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Engaging Modernity by Ousseina D. Alidou Pdf

Seizing the space opened by the early 1990s democratization movement, Muslim women are carving an active, influential, but often-overlooked role for themselves during a time of great change. Engaging Modernity provides a compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confronted the challenges and opportunities of the late twentieth century. Based on thorough scholarly research and extensive fieldwork—including a wealth of interviews—Ousseina Alidou’s work offers insights into the meaning of modernity for Muslim women in Niger. Mixing biography with sociological data, social theory and linguistic analysis, this is a multilayered vision of political Islam, education, popular culture, and war and its aftermath. Alidou offers a gripping look at one of the Muslim world’s most powerful untold stories. Runner-up, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association, 2007

Author : Muhammad Khalid Masud
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748637942

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Islam and Modernity by Muhammad Khalid Masud Pdf

Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. These developments are accompanied by a wide range of social movements and by complex and varied religious and ideological debates. This textbook is a pioneering study providing an introduction to and overview of the debates and questions that have emerged regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The various manifestations of modernity in Muslim life discussed include social change and the transformation of political and religious institutions, gender politics, changing legal regimes, devotional practices and forms of religious association, shifts in religious authority, and modern developments in Muslim religious thought.

Author : Amina Jamal
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815652373

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Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan by Amina Jamal Pdf

This book critically examines the feminization of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a major movement for Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia. Through an ethnographic and textual study of Jamaat women elected to local, provincial, and national bodies in Pakistan from 2002 to 2008, Jamal draws attention to the cultural-political forces that enabled these women to become influential within the party and in Pakistan’s major urban centers of Karachi and Lahore. Jamal situates Jamaat women within Islamic modernism without reifying them as either pious agents reacting to state-imposed modernization or gendered citizens who use Islam for class-based instrumental ends. Jamaat women are represented as subjects who move in many directions by acting against and through the discourses of Islamic tradition, cultural modernity, and modernization.

Author : Leila Ahmed
Publisher : Veritas Paperbacks
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300257311

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Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed Pdf

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.

Author : Katherine Bullock
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565643581

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Books-In-Brief: Rethinking Muslim Women & The Veil by Katherine Bullock Pdf

Until now the bulk of the literature about the veil has been written by outsiders who do not themselves veil. This literature often assumes a condescending tone about veiled women, assuming that they are making uninformed decisions choices about veiling makes them subservient to a patriarchal culture and religion. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” offers an alternative viewpoint, based on the thoughts and experiences of Muslim women themselves. This is the first time a clear and concise book-length argument has been made for the compatibility between veiling and modernity. Katherine Bullock uncovers positive aspects of the veil that are frequently not perceived by outsiders. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” looks at the colonial roots of the negative Western stereotype of the veil. It presents interviews with Muslim women to discover their thoughts and experiences with the veil in Canada. The book also offers a positive theory of veiling. The author argues that in consumer capitalist cultures, women can find wearing the veil a liberation from the stifling beauty game that promotes unsafe and unhealthy ideal body images for women. This book also includes an extensive bibliography on topics related to Muslim women and the veil.

Author : Lara Deeb
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400840786

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An Enchanted Modern by Lara Deeb Pdf

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and pious. In this depiction of a Shi'I Muslim community in Beirut, Deeb examines the ways that individual and collective expressions and understandings of piety have been debated, contested, and reformulated. Women take center stage in this process, a result of their visibility both within the community, and in relation to Western ideas that link the status of women to modernity. By emphasizing the ways notions of modernity and piety are lived, debated, and shaped by "everyday Islamists," this book underscores the inseparability of piety and politics in the lives of pious Muslims.

Author : A. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137389008

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Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan by A. Weiss Pdf

In Pakistan, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women's rights. This book analyzes the Government of Pakistan's construction of an understanding of what constitutes women's rights, moves on to address traditional views and contemporary popular opinion on women's rights, and then focuses on three very different groups' perceptions of women's rights: progressive women's organizations as represented by the Aurat Foundation and Shirkat Gah; orthodox Islamist views as represented by the Jama'at-i-Islami, the MMA government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2002-08) and al-Huda; and the Swat Taliban. Author Anita M. Weiss analyzes the resultant "culture wars" that are visibly ripping the country apart, as groups talk past one another - each confidant that they are the proprietors of culture and interpreters of religion while others are misrepresenting it.

Author : B. S. Sherin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9352876695

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Gendering Minorities by B. S. Sherin Pdf

Author : Katherine Bullock
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642057683

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Bosnian: Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern ‎Stereotypes ‎ by Katherine Bullock Pdf

Until now the bulk of the literature about the veil has been written by outsiders who do not ‎themselves veil. This literature often assumes a condescending tone about veiled women, assuming ‎that they are making uninformed decisions choices about veiling makes them subservient to a ‎patriarchal culture and religion. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” offers an alternative ‎viewpoint, based on the thoughts and experiences of Muslim women themselves.‎ This is the first time a clear and concise book-length argument has been made for the compatibility ‎between veiling and modernity. Katherine Bullock uncovers positive aspects of the veil that are ‎frequently not perceived by outsiders.‎ ‎“Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” looks at the colonial roots of the negative Western ‎stereotype of the veil. It presents interviews with Muslim women to discover their thoughts and ‎experiences with the veil in Canada. The book also offers a positive theory of veiling. The author ‎argues that in consumer capitalist cultures, women can find wearing the veil a liberation from the ‎stifling beauty game that promotes unsafe and unhealthy ideal body images for women. This book ‎also includes an extensive bibliography on topics related to Muslim women and the veil.‎

Author : Asgharali Engineer
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932705422

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The Qurʼan, Women, and Modern Society by Asgharali Engineer Pdf

Reinterprets divine injunctions from the Quran and traditional practices in Islam in light of the fundamental Islamic values of justice and equality on women's status. This work presents sociopolitical values and medieval social ethos as the origins of repressive practices, discussing controversial issues such as polygamy, and family planning.

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887060684

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Women, Religion, and Social Change by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Ellison Banks Findly Pdf

De bijdragen in dit boek onderzoeken welke rol vrouwen van diverse religieuze achtergronden hebben gespeeld in revoluties en sociale veranderingen. Er wordt nagegaan hoe religies de deelname van vrouwen aan het sociale veranderingsproces stimuleren of belemmeren. Alle grote wereldgodsdiensten en hun verschillende lokale invullingen komen aan bod.