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Books on: islam and women

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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

Book by Lucy Creevey, Barbara Callaway; Lynne Rienner, 1994

Subjects:

Islam--Social Aspects--Africa, West, Muslim Women--Nigeria, Muslim Women--Senegal, Women--Africa, West--Social Conditions, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc. (Islamic Law)--Africa, West

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of current culture comes from Islam and what pre-Islamic influences...and political roles for royal women. It is clear from historical...peoples that the incorporation of Islam into the society profoundly...1993 . Prior to the coming of Islam, women of aristocratic origin...
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Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West

Book by Karin Van Nieuwkerk; University of Texas Press, 2006

Subjects:

Gender Identity--Europe, Muslim Converts From Christianity--Europe, Muslim Women--Europe, Sex Role--Religious Aspects--Islam, Women In Islam--Europe

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...through the woman or with the woman. He is using his woman to tempt the black man. He...before the so-called Negro woman to deceive her by feigning...difficulty he had recruiting women into the fold as evidence of...demonology of the Nation of Islam, which not only viewed racism...
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Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam

Book by Carolyn Moxley Rouse; University of California Press, 2004

Subjects:

African American Women--Religion, Muslim Women--Social Conditions, Muslim Women--United States--Social Conditions, Women In Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...ways in which African American women often adapt their religion to...the split with the Nation of Islam, or they are second-generation...American Muslims. Assimilation of Islam into American capitalism is...conform to interpretations of Islam. Women who wear hijab believe...
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"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'Ean

Book by Asma Barlas; University of Texas Press, 2002

Subjects:

Women In Islam, Women In The Koran, Women's Rights--Religious Aspects--Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Goldman, Shalom. The Wiles of Women, the Wiles of Men: Joseph and Potiphars...Co., 1992. Haddad, Yvonne Y. Islam, Women and Revolution in Twentieth Century...Human Longing for Knowing Gods Mind. Islam and the Modern Age 20, no. i...
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Women and the Koran: The Status of Women in Islam

Book by Anwar Hekmat; Prometheus Books, 1997

Subjects:

Muslim Women, Women In Islam, Women In The Koran

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...husband from marrying another woman.Before Islam women in Arabia were more independent than they are today under Islam, as will be shown later. 2...enough means to marry another woman.Even in our time and age, a...

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Journal Articles on: islam and women

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Islam, Women and Australia's Cultural Discourse of Terror

Journal article by Binoy Kampmark; Hecate, Vol. 29, 2003

Subjects:

Activism, Activists, Civil rights, Clothing, Families & family life, Gender, Households, Islam, Law, Muslims, Politics, Religion, Religious law, Theology, Women, Womens rights movement

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...about the treatment of women and children here?(30) Positioning the Islamic woman The Sydney rapes involved...white woman vis-a-vis Islam, representing her as...that such assessments of Islam isolated women of the Islamic faith...seeking to promote the woman freed of Islamic dress, a modernised Islam vitiated of any choices...
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Islam, Women and Australia's Cultural Discourse of Terror

Journal article by Binoy Kampmark; Hecate, Vol. 29, 2003

Subjects:

Islam, Rape, Terrorism, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...positioning of Australian women as threatened by...religion; the Muslim woman with her struggle...culture; second, at Islam as symbolised by...the treatment of women and children here...Positioning the Islamic woman The Sydney rapes...woman vis-a-vis Islam, representing her...of Islam isolated women of the Islamic faith...seeking to promote the woman freed of Islamic dress, a modernised Islam vitiated of any...
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Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey

Journal article by Emelie A. Olson; The Middle East Journal, Vol. 57, 2003

Subjects:

Islam, Nonfiction, Saktanber, Ayse, Social life & customs, Turkey, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey by Emelie A. Olson Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization...scholarly study more generally of contemporary Islam in Turkey. In a criticism of "Turkish...
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Teaching about Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in the Classroom

Journal article by Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon; Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 44, 2011

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Arabic language, Arabs, Contemporary problems, Geography, Islam, Motion picture directors & producers, Multiculturalism & pluralism, North Africa, Postcolonialism, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...God. The Muslim Woman as Single Category...discussions of gender and Islam (in the Maghreb...citizens and all Muslim women regardless of their...affect both men and women in the context of...misogynistic texts of Islam are used to explain...North African Muslim woman. The rights Tunisian...discussion about Muslim women and Islam: * What does the Christian or Muslim woman mean? * What does...
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The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View

Journal article by Roxanne D. Marcotte; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View. by...The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View. By...identical origins of both women and men. In chapter four...of (Sunni) marriage in Islam, a number of pre-Islamic...

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Magazine Articles on: islam and women

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Islam: A Woman Breaks a Taboo

Magazine article by Allegra Stratton; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 28, 2005

Subjects:

Imams--Powers and duties, Islam--Laws, regulations and rules, Islam--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Islam--United States, Koran (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Muslims, Women priests

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Islam: A Woman Breaks a Taboo. by Allegra...recorded history have women led prayers. Nor have...Prophet gave permission to women to lead any kind of prayer...a seventh-century woman said to have been given...Azhar mosque elaborated: Islam permits women to lead other women in...
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Crown Princess Sarvath Hasan Speaks on "women in Islam"

Magazine article by M. M; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVII, February 1999

Subjects:

Civil rights, Employment, Female employees, Hasan, Sarvath, Human relations, Interpersonal communication, Islam, Jordan, Personal relationships, Religion, Washington, DC, Women, Womens rights movement

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Princess Sarvath Hasan Speaks on "women in Islam" by M. M Crown Princess Sarvath Hasan Speaks on "Women in Islam" Crown Princess Sarvath, wife of...Studies (SAIS) Dec. 7 on "Women in Islam." The event was co-sponsored...
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A Faith of Their Own: Muslim Women Seek the Renewal of Islam

Magazine article by Asra Q. Nomani; Sojourners Magazine, Vol. 36, March 2007

Subjects:

Islam--India, Islam--Laws, regulations and rules, Islam--Pakistan, Islam--Religious aspects, Muslim women--Religious aspects, Muslim women--Social aspects, Women, Muslim--Religious aspects, Women, Muslim--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Their Own: Muslim Women Seek the Renewal of Islam. by Asra Q. Nomani...mosques in which women werent allowed to...created in the name of Islam by men, specifically...The efforts of women reformers underscore...that have defined Islam for centuries...
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As Islam Replaces Communism in Uzbekistan, Economy Stagnates, Men Remain "more Equal" Than Women

Magazine article by Lucy Jones; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVIII, November 30, 1999

Subjects:

Economic conditions, Finance, Gender, International finance, Islam, Politics, Religion, Uzbekistan

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...issues. The percentage of women in the Uzbek parliament has...percent since 1991. The only woman in the cabinet heads the Office...at the rise of conservative Islam, President Islam Karimov has done little to improve the status of women in Uzbekistan. Indeed, the...
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Women and Islam

Magazine article by M. M; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIX, May 31, 2000

Subjects:

Gailani, Fatima, Gender, Islam, Nafisi, Azar, Organizations, Politics, Religion, Taher-Kheli, Shirin, Washington, DC

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...international bodies to "rescue women from the unending siege" in...Fatima Gailani, the only woman wearing a headscarf on the dais, argued that "Islam has not mandated wearing of hijab for women. It requires women to dress...strongly that "the answer lies in Islam alone." Profiling the Taliban...

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Newspaper Articles on: islam and women

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Why Are So Many Modern British Career Women Converting to Islam?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 27, 2010

Subjects:

Islam--Pakistan, Islam--United Kingdom, Muslims, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...modern British career women to do so. Here...turned my back on Islam. After all, what...liberated British woman would choose to live...trend of Western women choosing to convert to Islam. Broadcaster and...middle-class white woman would choose to become...But several of the women I spoke to said strict...show the world that Islam is not the faith...
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Cherie Defends Muslim Women after Half-Sister Turns to Islam

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 4, 2010

Subjects:

Blair, Cherie, Hijab (Custom), Islam, Muslim women, Women, Muslim

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Cherie Defends Muslim Women after Half-Sister Turns to Islam. Byline: Martin Bentham Home...CHERIE BLAIR has defended Muslim women who wear a veil and insisted that...to do is help to explain that Islam is an open religion in which women...
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At 13, My Stepfather Imprisoned Me in My Own Home. Nothing Has Changed for Muslim Girls; on Friday a New Film, Love + Hate, Is Released Which Is Set to Spark More Debate about How Islam Continues to Repress Young Women Today. Here One Writer Recalls Her Own Damaging Experience

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 2, 2006

Subjects:

Islam--Analysis, Motion pictures--Analysis, Motion pictures--Personal narratives, Movies--Analysis, Movies--Personal narratives, Muslims--Analysis, Women in motion pictures--Analysis, Women in motion pictures--Personal narratives, Women--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...message I got was that Islam was about the word...changed for Muslim women - the film tells the...as a normal young woman. I cried, because...it, because loose women painted their faces...we interpreted as Islam, because we had only...
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Women Should Be Wary of Romanticising Islam

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 8, 2010

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Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Wary of Romanticising Islam. Byline: Yasmin Alibhai...classes there for Muslim women and children. Muslim...This intrepid white woman dares to push aside the...privileged middle-class white women have converted to Islam, often the most restricted...
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Do Women Who Convert to Islam Have a Point? DEBATE

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 1, 2010

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Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Do Women Who Convert to Islam Have a Point? DEBATE...previously Christian woman need to convert to Islam to prove this? She...middle-class British women entering convents if...Glasgow. I KnoW plenty of women who are compassionate...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: islam and women

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Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...This leeway also allowed Islam to expand by incorporating social...obligations apply equally to men and women. The actual situation of women...social traditions predating Islam than of theoretical positions...Bibliography See F. Rahman, Islam (1966); M. Jameelah, Islam...
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Harem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...In the ancient Arab world women enjoyed a certain amount of...However, with the advent of Islam, the veiling and seclusion of women into harems became more common...often contained several hundred women, all subject to the control...
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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...rest (half of whom must be women) appointed by the president...Assembly may be contrary to Islam. Administratively, the country...increasing the freedom of its women provoked opposition that led...former mujahidin and Taliban, women, and Pashtuns (which are overlapping...
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Iran

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Iran and established the Shiite sect of Islam as the state religion; it reached its...in the 1963 and subsequent elections. Women received the right to vote in national...Western influence and music were banned, women were forced to return to traditional veiled...
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Uzbekistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...8th cent. to the Arabs, who introduced Islam, and in the 12th cent. to the Seljuk...resolution declaring the republics sovereignty. Islam Karimov , who had been named Uzbekistans...however, estimated that more than 700 men, women, and children had died when security forces...

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