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Women and the Koran: The Status of Women in Islam » Read Now
by Anwar Hekmat. 267 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Hekmat explains how Arab society evolved from a polytheistic, pre-Islamic culture featuring female equality to one in which men dominate & women are little more than chattel, some forced into marriage at nine years old! Written by a distinguished former Muslim scholar.
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Quran and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective » Read Now
by Amina Wadud. 118 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of...
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Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal interpretation and implementation of the Qu'ran that have kept women oppressed. For many, the way to reform is the reexamination and reinterpretation of religious texts. Qu'ran and Woman contributes a gender inclusive reading to one of the most fundamental disciplines in Islamic thought, Qu'ranic exegesis. Wadud breaks down specific texts and key words which have been used to limit women's public and private role, even to justify violence toward Muslim women, revealing that their original meaning and context defy such interpretations. What her analysis clarifies is the lack of gender bias, precedence, or prejudice in the essential language of the Qur'an. Despite much Qu'ranic evidence about the significance of women, gender reform in Muslim society has been stubbornly resisted. Wadud's reading of the Qu'ran confirms women's equality and constitutes legitimate grounds for contesting the unequal treatment that women have experienced historically and continue to experience legally in Muslim communities. The Qu'ran does not prescribe one timeless and unchanging social structure for men and women, Wadud argues lucidly, affirming that the Qu'ran holds greater possibilities for guiding human society to a more fulfilling and productive mutual collaboration between men and women than as yet attained by Muslims or non-Muslims.
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Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform » Read Now
by Mahnaz E. Afkhami, Erika E. Friedl. 200 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the international community accepted women's rights as human rights, and with it the charge to work toward the full integration of women in the affairs of their respective nations. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation is about ways of...
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At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the international community accepted women's rights as human rights, and with it the charge to work toward the full integration of women in the affairs of their respective nations. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation is about ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising consciousness and changing codes of law to penetrating the economic markets and influencing national and international policies. Editors Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl challenge stereotypes about Muslim women and probe the difficulties and possibilities women face as they work for positive social change. Sixteen activists and politicians from international organizations - most from Muslim countriesdiscuss, for the first time, major issues relevant to Muslim women striving to achieve their human rights through political participation.
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The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam » Read Now
by Fatima Mernissi, Mary Jo Lakeland. 217 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East » Read Now
by Margaret L. Meriwether, Judith E. Tucker. 220 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women & gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret Meriwether & Judith Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women & gender in the nineteenth- & twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines...
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Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women & gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret Meriwether & Judith Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women & gender in the nineteenth- & twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area-gender & work, gender & the state, gender & law, gender & religion, & feminist movements-& each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic.
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Islam, Gender, and Social Change » Read Now
by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John L. Esposito. 260 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...0-19-511356-X; 0-19-511357-8 pbk. 1. Women in Islam. 2. Muslim women--Social conditions...vii Introduction: Women in Islam and Muslim Societies John L...Society in Pakistan...
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Women in Muslim Family Law » Read Now
by John L. Esposito. 162 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...questions: Does Islam the Islamic...mean for women and the family...Islamic reform in the twentieth...advent of Islam brought a...especially women. These...
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Today's Woman in World Religions ("Women in Islam" begins on p. 303) » Read Now
by Arvind Sharma. 459 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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The Social Structure of Islam: Being the Second Edition of the Sociology of Islam (Chap. II "The Status of Women in Islam") » Read Now
by Reuben Levy. 538 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Introduction 1 I THE GRADES OF SOCIETY IN ISLAM 53 II THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN ISLAM 91 III THE STATUS OF THE CHILD IN ISLAM 135 IV ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE 150...
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Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State » Read Now
by Sondra Hale. 295 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...number of myths in the literature...superstructural Islam determining womens...fact is that the women are chosen positioned...historical survey Women and Gender in Islam...
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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa » Read Now
by Lucy Creevey, Barbara Callaway. 217 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt » Read Now
by Margot Badran. 344 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources-- memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how...
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The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources-- memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that feminism is Western and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.
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The Darkest of Ages: Afghan Women under the Taliban, in Peace and Conflict » Read Now
by John J. Schulz, Linda Schulz. 18 pgs.

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...emotionally disturbed women. They received their religious training in their version of Islam in the camps. They...the rights given to women in Islam ( Goodwin...
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Perceptions of Arranged Marriages by Young Pakistani Muslim Women Living in a Western Society, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies » Read Now
by Arshia U. Zaidi, Muhammad Shuraydi. 20 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Marriage, the Family and Women in India. Columbia, Missouri...Raza, M.S. 1991 Islam in Britain: Past...with Young Muslim Women of Pakistani Origin...Centre for the Study of...
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A Habit of Violence Grown Ordinary: Constraints on Muslim Women's Participation in War, in Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military » Read Now
by Maria Holt. 36 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Esposito, John L, "Introduction: Women in Islam and Muslim Societies", in Haddad...69-70. (26.) Roded, Ruth, editor, Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader...in...
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A Woman's Place: A Confrontation with Bedouin Custom in the Sharia Court, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society » Read Now
by Ron Shaham. 6 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...enforcing the shari a in Bedouin society...considering normative Islam as binding. The...closer to normative Islam by this strategy. On the other hand, in those cases...