Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

negatively about others behind their backs as a sin, and think women are the ones who participate in this social evil. Women eve ...

on. During the Iranian Revolution of 1978–9, female activists discussed the issues at stake, spread information about developmen ...

——, Gender and religion in the Middle East and South Asia. Women’s voices rising, in J. E. Tucker and M. L. Meriwether (eds.), S ...

Iran and Afghanistan “Honor,” a translation of nàmùs, sharaf, and a number of related concepts, is a central term in the languag ...

While individual women have always resisted the honor-based hierarchy of gender power, conscious efforts to change the status qu ...

many villagers spoke of a family’s right to kill a daughter who conceives outside marriage, today family honor is more often pre ...

N. Kabeer, The power to choose. Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka, Dhaka 2000. D. Mandelbaum, Wo ...

women’s purity and family honor. Pointing to the fact that ideas of honor and shame are embedded in the monotheistic religions, ...

L. Yalçın-Heckmann, Açiretli kadın. Göçer ve yarı-göçer toplumlarda cinsiyet rolleri ve kadın stratejileri, in Ç. Tekeli (ed.), ...

Overview Definition While it was anthropologists and sociologists who studied the cultural construct “honor” (and its corollary ...

Modern law The legal regulation of honor killings in various Arab and Islamic countries varies from complete prohibition of the ...

councils, and so its application was closely bound up with the image and practice of traditional rulership. “Honor killing” is a ...

to countenance her husband’s taking her bed and giving it to his concubine. He claimed that an attack of jinn, malevolent spirit ...

Overview Recently, human rights activists and feminist scholars have turned their attention to crimes of honor and have mobilize ...

as a social expectation or it is expected equally of both men and women. Also, a minority of Western human rights activists have ...

tion of those rules, and prosecutorial practice, leave a residue of social violence that influences those forms of being (a virg ...

Central Asia The legendary hospitality of Central Asians was the consequence of several influences. Foremost was the role played ...

the other with bent knee. This is convenient, for they always serve at the table and need to get up easily, and is also consider ...

Icons of hospitality After greetings, guests in the Gulf and Yemen are offered refreshment, although what substance stands for a ...

J. Howard (eds.), Gender, politics, and Islam, Chicago 2002, 161–200. S. Dorsky, Women of ≠Amran. A Middle Eastern ethno- graphi ...