Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

1982, 72, 75, Berberian 2000, 75). The marriage of prepubescent girls in Anatolia was not unheard of as the “more physically or ...

Armenian schools Education of girls often depended on availability of schools and fear for the safety of girls who might have to ...

The twentieth century witnessed major eco- nomic, political, and social transformations in the Middle East. The formation of new ...

Overview The Bahà±ìFaith grew out of nineteenth-century Shì≠ìmessianic expectations much as Christianity grew out of similar exp ...

against them. A deadly clash resulted and the Bàbìs dispersed in different directions. Pitched battles raged between the Bàbìs a ...

One Iranian Bahà±ìwoman influenced by this development was Ta±irih Tihrani (1861–1911), born ≠Ismat Khanum. Ta±irih’s husband se ...

Shoghi Effendi, God passes by, Wilmette, Ill. 1944. J. Walbridge, Sacred acts, sacred space, sacred time, Oxford 1996. Women, Co ...

The Caucasus and Central Asia Caucasian and Central Asian women are currently in a process of constant negotiation and renego- t ...

being the guardians of the nation and bastions of resistance against assimilation. Here, a revived discourse of genocide (harkin ...

women’s future success in moving beyond the boundaries dictated by conservative nationalists and Islamists depends on state gend ...

line with international norms and codes as enshrined in such conventions as the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Conve ...

Sons inherit twice as much as daughters, and they are also expected to look after their parents in old age. (However, in many Ar ...

M. Charrad, States and women’s rights. The making of postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, Berkeley 2001. S. Hale, The Isl ...

Arab Emirates state federation, established in 1971, was able during the 1990s to make impressive in- roads in women’s education ...

schools that favor gender equality, as well as those that do not. Muslim women in Southeast Asia are thus part of an Islam that ...

mosques (allegedly unique to the Indonesian archi- pelago), kindergartens, and women’s Islamic schools, thereby encouraging wome ...

to have an agenda to establish an Islamic state in Malaysia (Beatrix 1994). PAS released its Islamic State Document on 12 Novemb ...

Bibliography ADB (Asian Development Bank), Sociolegal status of women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thai- land, Manila ...

viewpoints: a first position states that policies on multiculturalism function to sustain social inequal- ity; a second holds th ...

policies are put into place (such as the teaching of Arabic, or religious instruction) without immigrant populations having been ...