Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

rules. There are no records of any Muslim females graduates from the academies. Women were com- missioned through other sources, ...

many women on bases around the country, espe- cially for wearing the ™ijàb. It has ensured that serv- ice women are represented ...

Overview Within the Islamic tradition, a Qur±ànic verse that can be, and frequently has been, drawn upon to authorize discourses ...

groups or strata. In deeply hierarchical societies such as that found in Yemen, modest comportment, along with competitive hospi ...

The modern politics of modesty If modesty discourses in the twentieth century have been associated primarily with Muslim piety o ...

they consider proper Islamic behavior guided by the Sharì≠a have often focused on the modesty of women. In their prescriptive tr ...

Conclusion Women’s modesty is a fundamental component of gendered moral systems in many societies across the Muslim world. It ha ...

women. In the most conservative areas, such as Khatlon province in Tajikistan, rural Gharmi women continued to be secluded and c ...

under Islam. More frequently, ™ijàbis regarded as various styles of head and/or body coverings adopted within and across culture ...

women in a non-Muslim community, in L. B. Arthur (ed.), Religion, dress and the body, Oxford 1999, 147–62. ——, The Afghan woman’ ...

women was a metaphor for social order. During periods of rapid social and political change, as occurred in the late sixteenth-ce ...

O. Bon, The sultan’s seraglio. An intimate portrait of life at the Ottoman court, trans. R. Withers, London 1996 (first publishe ...

ethnicity, and economics (Kabeer 1994, Hashmi 2000). Since the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, eco- nomic development, nationhood, ...

attributed to Somalia’s recent independence from the United Kingdom and Italy in the early 1960s (Abdullahi 2001). Subsequently, ...

V. Luling, The Somali of the Horn of Africa, in R. Hitch- cock and J. Osborn (eds.), Endangered peoples of Africa and the Middle ...

emergence of stricter dress conventions and prac- tices of female seclusion. In the past, female domes- ticity occasionally serv ...

Arab States Mother (umm) and motherhood (umùma) are highlycelebrated in Arab proverbs, poetry, folk- songs, fairy tales, and rel ...

empowerment as mainly linked to participation in public life and view motherhood as a tool that has often been used by different ...

as a result of persecution by the Taliban. Also included are some anti-Taliban Pashtuns or mem- bers of other persecuted groups. ...

child into this world. She is acknowledged for this on a daily basis. The virtue of motherhood is metaphorically compared with a ...