Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Although women learned in Islamic law have been giving unofficial religious advice, essentially fatwas, through the ages, there ...

practice had persisted unhindered. Shortly after the conference, Jàd al-£aqq, then grand shaykh of al- Azhar, issued a fatwa dec ...

Many of the NGOs working in rural areas made a deliberate effort to educate villagers about the dangers of these unlawful fatwas ...

Australia This entry is concerned with the ways in which Muslim women in Australia experience religious racism as a restriction ...

of overwhelming hostility and negativity. The Isma-Listen consultations reported that schools were often places of fear and dist ...

majority population willing to perpetuate negative representations and hostility toward them. Even if racism does not result in ...

the Islamic ™ijàb. Under Reza Shah’s rule, women, like other sectors of the society, lost the right to express themselves and di ...

Numerous feminist Internet sites based abroad as well as inside Iran provide a plethora of informa- tion, feminist literature, a ...

of fundamentalist censors. Women’s rights groups also defended Nasreen’s rights to free speech. In the hands of the Hindu Right, ...

Those at particular risk of abuse are the members of the A™madiyya community. A™madìs, members of a religious group founded in t ...

government, parliament, and electronic and print media has been disproportionately lower than that of their male counterparts (C ...

in Islamic practices in Niger and Nigeria, in H. L. Bodman and N. Tohidi (eds.), Women in Muslim soci- eties. Diversities within ...

emerging from Friday prayers at a local Sunnì mosque. The failure of Islamist activists to con- demn the Sivas massacre, as it c ...

shave their beards or take off the kùfìthey wear for religious reasons in order to keep their jobs. A few corporations have take ...

Muslim community organizations in the United States are responding to women’s call for inclusion. The Islamic Society of North A ...

remain under the very strong influence of the fam- ily structure. Time changes the situation for many. For the most part, the fi ...

A.-S. Roald, Women in Islam. The Western experience, London 2001, W. A. R. Shadid and P. S. van Koningsveld (eds.), Reli- gious ...

Arab States Recent studies of women, gender, and friendship in Arab states can be roughly divided into two often overlapping cat ...

women in the Arab world, the family is a central model for creating meaningful relationships with others. They do not suggest, h ...

Bibliography L. Abu-Lughod, Veiled sentiments, Los Angeles 1986. S. Altorki, Women in Saudi Arabia, New York 1986. F. El Guindi, ...