Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

of darsparties, that is, Qur±ànic instruction is a reg- ular feature of these gatherings, with sessions often led by a woman who ...

and which in turn leads them to consolidate their sense of empowerment through female solidarity. Bibliography S. Ahmed, The hop ...

exchanged between women’s homes were equiva- lent to the ways in which men received visits in cof- fee shops and that the import ...

manage the ritual gift economy known as lena dena, practiced during life-course rituals, particu- larly weddings (Eglar 1960). W ...

The centrality of women in “pre-political contexts of everyday life” is one stressed by Ålund in her study of Yugoslav women in ...

as the Young Muslim Association of Britain or the United Kingdom Islamic Mission in Britain have women’s sections. Sufi groups a ...

East Asia and Southeast Asia An impressive amount of research has been con- ducted on the phenomenon of patronage and clien- tag ...

In Asia, clientelism is linked ultimately to the forg- ing of loyalty and to family ideology. In societies where descent is of i ...

modes of interaction were cultivated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, resulting in principles such as giri(owing ...

encounter and participate in patronage and client- age in a variety of roles, such as citizens, household members, rural agricul ...

Radical outcome of liberal Kemalism?, in F. M. Göçek and S. Balaghi (eds.), Reconstructing gender in the Middle East. Tradition, ...

Arab States United Nations peacekeeping and conflict management: historical background The concepts of peacekeeping and conflict ...

involves gender mainstreaming in United Nations reporting systems and stresses the need to incorpo- rate gender mainstreaming in ...

Seven instances of open warfare occurred in the Caucasus in the 1980s and 1990s, and there have been many other cases of the use ...

Y. Arat, Gender and citizenship in Turkey, in S. Joseph (ed.), Gender and citizenship in the Middle East, Syra- cuse, N.Y. 2000, ...

flict resolution. The Naga conflict predates Indian independence and began as a movement for auton- omy. Soon, however, it conve ...

groups have taken such titles as Women’s Leader- ship for Peace. Motherhood traditionally gave women the legitimacy to intervene ...

works. Since the fall of the Siyad Barre regime in 1991, Somalia has functioned without a national government. Somali women came ...

M. Michaelson, Afar-Issa conflict management, in Insti- tute of Current World Affairs Letters, Hanover, N.H. January 2000. E. Re ...

Afghanistan The Afghan constitution of 1964 granted univer- sal suffrage; however, political parties were not allowed. Prior to ...