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Women and Islam / Zayn R. Kassam, editor. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and religion in the worldPublication details: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, (c)2010.Description: xxxvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780275991586
  • 9780313082740
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BP173
  • BP173.K19.W664 2010
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Contents:
Louise A. Halper -- Gendered space and shared security: women's activism in peace and conflict resolution in Indonesia Etin Anwar -- Failures of solidarity, failures of the nation-state: nongovernmental organizations and Moroccan women's activism Rachel Newcomb -- Beyond personal belief? The role of religious identities among Muslim women respect activists Narzanin Massoumi -- In search of faithful citizens in postcolonial Malaysia: Islamic ethics, Muslim activism, and feminist politics Azza Basarudin -- Muslim women's scholarship and the new gender jihad Roxanne D. Marcotte -- New expressions of religiosity: Al Huda international and the expansion of Islamic education for Pakistani Muslim women Khanum Shaikh -- "Women's spirit" and spiritual matter(s)": gender, activism, and scholarship in an Ethiopian eco-spiritual system Patricia H. Karimi-Taleghani -- Staging politics: new currents in North African women's dramatic literature Laura Chakravarty Box -- Indonesian women: activist and Islamist spiritual callings Nelly Van Doorn-Harder -- The dialogs of a new Orientalist discourse: telling tales of Iranian womanhood Kahani Beguum -- Religious practice and worldview of Muslim women in western Europe Kari Vogt -- From ritual to redemption : world view of Shi'a Muslim women in southern California Bridget Blomfield -- Religion as a spring for activism: Muslim women youth in Canada Katherine Bullock.
Subject: A collection of essays to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world.
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A collection of essays to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world.

Law and Iranian women's activism Louise A. Halper -- Gendered space and shared security: women's activism in peace and conflict resolution in Indonesia Etin Anwar -- Failures of solidarity, failures of the nation-state: nongovernmental organizations and Moroccan women's activism Rachel Newcomb -- Beyond personal belief? The role of religious identities among Muslim women respect activists Narzanin Massoumi -- In search of faithful citizens in postcolonial Malaysia: Islamic ethics, Muslim activism, and feminist politics Azza Basarudin -- Muslim women's scholarship and the new gender jihad Roxanne D. Marcotte -- New expressions of religiosity: Al Huda international and the expansion of Islamic education for Pakistani Muslim women Khanum Shaikh -- "Women's spirit" and spiritual matter(s)": gender, activism, and scholarship in an Ethiopian eco-spiritual system Patricia H. Karimi-Taleghani -- Staging politics: new currents in North African women's dramatic literature Laura Chakravarty Box -- Indonesian women: activist and Islamist spiritual callings Nelly Van Doorn-Harder -- The dialogs of a new Orientalist discourse: telling tales of Iranian womanhood Kahani Beguum -- Religious practice and worldview of Muslim women in western Europe Kari Vogt -- From ritual to redemption : world view of Shi'a Muslim women in southern California Bridget Blomfield -- Religion as a spring for activism: Muslim women youth in Canada Katherine Bullock.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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