Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

These contradictions nowadays create conflict be- tween generations and genders. Breaking free from their role is also a difficu ...

D. Bouzar and S. Kada, L’une voilée, l’autre pas, Paris 2003. D. Bouzar, Réappropriation de la référence musulmane, parenté et c ...

Overview Introduction Benedict Anderson observes that nationalism is akin to kinship in that it rests on assumptions of putative ...

modern nation. Practices such as polygamy, concu- binage, and divorce were regarded as “social evils” that threatened the stabil ...

autochthonous political tradition that gives central place to “the notion of the state as a family, organ- ically united in love ...

take the place of father and mother and tutor and would be the locus of happiness shared by men. Thus, it is not fitting that on ...

Family relations as “anti-history” The familial/organic trope is not autochthonous, but it provides modes of political organizat ...

of men. Women writers, in particular, have drawn attention to the ways in which the illiterate partici- pate in and reproduce na ...

N. Yuval-Davis and F. Anthias (eds.), Woman, nation, state,Basingstoke, Hampshire 1989. Women’s Studies International Forum, spe ...

Canada This entry examines the debate over Islamic law in Canada and also introduces Irshad Manji, a con- troversial Islamic fem ...

Islamic framework, and thus successfully resists Ali’s polarizing statements that categorize any opposition to his vision as un- ...

Despite her radical views, Manji refuses to give up her Muslim identity, and instead levels her cri- tique of dominant Islam fro ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Nevertheless, men openly practice it, justifying this by religious doctrine. Islamist discourse, espe ...

required to obtain the permission of husbands for purposes of travel or employment. The new poli- cies and laws were enacted und ...

family is seen as sacred and protected by God, and women are regarded as such an integral part of the family that the Turkish wo ...

nationalist writings of the Turkic ethnic groups of the area when they were colonized by Russia (Ror- lich 2000), in the new sta ...

as the Arabs), Muslims discovered that establishing families often required extraordinary effort (import- ing a spouse from a di ...

found in the Middle East. Moreover, marriage was not only planned by parents, and approved by the imam, but the youthful adolesc ...

important to note that they have also had a signifi- cant impact on the street. Islamicist and revivalist trends have heightened ...

Overview In Islamic legal parlance, fatwa (fatwà, pl. fatàwà) refers to a clarification of an ambiguous judicial point or an opi ...