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"This collection of well researched and nuanced case studies on gender and social change in Muslim countries is a needed and welcome addition to the recently more balanced scholarship in the field....Hahhad and Esposito have brought together a rich collection of...reports that contribute to the understanding of the complex question of gender and change in Islam and Muslim societies by students and specialists alike."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"...a great text....The case studies provide an interesting way to examine social change and cultural relativity."--L. Friedrich, Simpson College
"...a great text....The case studies provide an interesting way to examine social change and cultural relativity."--L. Friedrich, Simpson College
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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 the 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 that these are being initiated in many cases 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 initiates in most of these societies.
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Over the two centuries, the role of women and the family in Islamic society has been a central component of the debates over modernization and progress. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Case Studies, Sociopolitical Change, Middle East, United Nations, New York, Islamic Republic, Saudi Arabia, Walled City, Abu Zayd, Arab Times, Changing Arab World, Sultan Qaboos, National Assembly, The Slow Yet Steady Path, Tarhata Kiram, United States, Badriya Ghanem, Syracuse University Press, Benazir Bhutto, Markaz Dirasat, Modernizing Women, Muhammad Abduh, Sarang Bangun, Amirul Kiram, Deteriorating Human Rights Conditions New!
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Over the two centuries, the role of women and the family in Islamic society has been a central component of the debates over modernization and progress. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Case Studies, Sociopolitical Change, Middle East, United Nations, New York, Islamic Republic, Saudi Arabia, Walled City, Abu Zayd, Arab Times, Changing Arab World, Sultan Qaboos, National Assembly, The Slow Yet Steady Path, Tarhata Kiram, United States, Badriya Ghanem, Syracuse University Press, Benazir Bhutto, Markaz Dirasat, Modernizing Women, Muhammad Abduh, Sarang Bangun, Amirul Kiram, Deteriorating Human Rights Conditions New!
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- The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (4 Volume Set) by John L. Esposito on 8 pages
- Women in the Muslim World by Lois Beck on 7 pages
- In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by Mahnaz Afkhami on 5 pages
- Muslim women by Freda Hussain on 5 pages
- Feminists, Islam, and Nation by Margot Badran on 4 pages
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- Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation by Vasant Kaiwar on page 222, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation by Vasant Kaiwar on page 222, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco by Mounira Charrad in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Islam and Gender by Ziba Mir-Hosseini in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Islam and Gender by Ziba Mir-Hosseini in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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