Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Thus, unlike in the West, the women’s movement did not evolve from within Muslim society to estab- lish gender norms. On the con ...

While international organizations and their part- ners have initiated a process of increased gender sensitivity, the same cannot ...

A. Penrose, Partnership, in D. H. Robinson and J. Harriss (eds.), Managing development. Understanding inter- organizational rela ...

Overview The status and condition of Jewish women living in Muslim societies are based on Jewish law and traditions and influenc ...

an enforced marriage. Since medieval times the common view was that ™alitsah has priority over yibum, though not all rabbis (for ...

Not only was women’s role in life and in the fam- ily viewed as different from that of men, but the Bible also regards their bas ...

female relatives, who taught them how to maintain a Jewish home. This included not only manual work but also prayers and related ...

Arab States There is, especially in the West, a popular mis- conception that jihad means “holy war,” referring only to military ...

The Egyptian Zaynab al-Ghazàlì, prior to be- coming a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, formed the Muslim Women’s Society in 193 ...

Leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood established in 1988 in Palesti ...

according to social, cultural, political, and eco- nomic circumstances. east asia In modern China, jihad has become part of civi ...

ering women mostly in rural areas, aiming to erad- icate illiteracy and encouraging women to be more independent. Together with ...

Sufism, for example, emphasizes that jihad is essen- tially the conquering of selfhood. She insists that the struggle along the ...

Iran and Afghanistan In Western vocabulary the term “jihad” has been especially used to denote the “sacred war” of Muslims again ...

devotion, of women’s pivotal role in the home and their active presence in the society. Although taking good care of the husband ...

the mystic way, although this is not common be- cause of the role women play in the family sphere. The jihàd-e akbar is understo ...

include dominance by the Fulbe, an ethnic group who were primarily rural pastoralists; a leadership outside the established poli ...

highly useful to the new caliphate. Of the 29 female scholars known by name, several of dan Fodio’s daughters were outstanding l ...

Sahelian West Africa and North Central Africa (Chad/Sudan) With the gradual conversion to Islam, Sahelian societies have been in ...

Bruijn and van Dijk 1995, Gibbal 1994; on Tuareg, Bouman 2003; on Tubu, Baroin 1984). The agricultural and sedentary groups are ...