Islam with a Female Face
Author: Anna Cieślewska
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9788376387673
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When Women Speak...
Author: Moyra Dale
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781506475967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth century should be remembered in missions as the time when women got lost. Over that time, the voices of women missionaries, leaders, and facilitators of new Christian movements were all too often excluded from missiological discourse and strategic mission discussion. It is hoped that this book signals a revival in the contribution of women to mission in a way that values what they have to offer.
The Face Behind the Veil
Author: Donna Gehrke-White
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2007-02
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780806527222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuslim-American women, in all their diversity, are given the chance to tell their stories in their own voice by award-winning journalist Donna Gehrke-White. The only book of its kind, it tells in extraordinarily moving detail the lives of New Traditionalists, who wear the veil though their forebears did not; Blenders, who do not wear the veil but consider themselves spiritual; and Converts - women from other religious backgrounds who have converted to Islam. A rare, revealing look into the hearts, minds and lives of a misunderstood people.
Muslim Women in America
Author: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-03-02
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0195177835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims.
Wearing the Niqab
Author: Anna Piela
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1350166030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores representations of the niqab in the UK and US as well as the wearing practices through which women find agency.
The Promise of Patriarchy
Author: Ula Yvette Taylor
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1469633949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Author: Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0674726332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.
What The Koran Really Says
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Publisher: Manas Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9788170493136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIslam Has Worldwide Influence, And Even In The United States Is Experiencing A Period Of Unprecedented Growth. Islam And Its Sacred Book, The Koran, Have Been The Subject Of Voluminous Commentary And, Recently, Great Popular Interest; Yet It Has Rarely Received The Kind Of Objective Critical Scrutiny That Has Been Applied To The Texts Of The Bible For More Than A Century.Though Some Scholars Of Note Have Raised Crucial Questions About The Authenticity And Reliability Of The Koran And Muslim Tradition, Koranic Studies By And Large Have Failed To Take Advantage Of Critical Skeptical Methodologies. Today The Majority Of Interpreters Of Islam S Sacred Text Appear Content To Lie In The Procrustean Bed Prepared By Muslim Tradition More Than A Thousand Years Ago.
Making Muslim Women European
Author: Fabio Giomi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9633863686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state “unveiled” and “liberated” them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing: • How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. • How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of “New Muslim Women” able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. • And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today’s challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs.
Fighting Hislam
Author: Susan Carland
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 0522870368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Muslim community that is portrayed to the West is a misogynist’s playground; within the Muslim community, feminism is often regarded with sneering hostility. Yet between those two views there is a group of Muslim women many do not believe exists: a diverse bunch who fight sexism from within, as committed to the fight as they are to their faith. Hemmed in by Islamophobia and sexism, they fight against sexism with their minds, words and bodies. Often, their biggest weapon is their religion. Here, Carland talks with Muslim women about how they are making a stand for their sex, while holding fast to their faith. At a time when the media trumpets scandalous revelations about life for women from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, Muslim women are always spoken about and over, never with. In Fighting Hislam, that ends.
