Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

(Renders 2003). The result of the Islamist initiative in Senegal was that “traditional” Muslims, notably the potent Sufi brother ...

tice in the whole of Eastern Africa. Social pressure to perform the operation is very strong. In Somalia, where the prevalence o ...

Sudan With a legacy of Sufi-inspired Mahdism in the nineteenth century and with Sufi-organized politi- cal sectarianism dominati ...

against these assignments and collaborated in their creation. Bibliography S. F. al-Badawì, article in al-Ía™àfa(Khartoum), 3 Ma ...

from the public domain is part of women’s general critique and contestation of the republican project of modernity, which failed ...

Canada The role of women in the rise and development of Islamic organizations in Canada is one of extra- ordinary and unique eff ...

since some women implement an equally strategic and active position by assuming a behind-the- scenes role. As an increasing numb ...

movement and the Canadian community as a whole. These organizations mirror identical objectives and maintain a similar role to t ...

South Asia Islam, as a religion of revelation, began as an apocalyptic movement anticipating the Day of Judgment, and retains ap ...

respondence with noblemen and courtiers that he was able to bring some pressure to bear on the court of Akbar’s successor, Jahàn ...

lives, however, is debatable since the vast majority of Muslim women in South Asia have rarely prayed outside their homes. His s ...

Safavid State, as well as the armed Qizilbash Turkmen rebellion, the Sakarya Shaykh, and the Urmiye Shaykh in the time of Murad ...

Silahdar Mehmed Pasha, Tàrìkh-i Silahdàr, i, Istanbul 1928, 334–5. H. Sohrweide, Der Sieg der Safaviden in Persien und seine Rij ...

Central Asia This entry is about women, gender, and the peace movements in Central Asia. Women have made substantial contributio ...

corporations seeking to exploit the region’s rich oil and gas reserves (Olson 2001). Contributions by women acting through NGOs ...

perceived a direct and peaceful political role for women in large numbers. Gandhi launched his massive non-violent non- cooperat ...

ethnic or religious communities. These groups con- cern themselves more with interstate conflicts, such as that between India an ...

Georgia, the Tiblisi-based Caucasus Women’s Re- search and Consulting Network (CWN) educates people about gender inequalities an ...

1905 (Fraser et al., 655) and hostilities continued into the First World War. This was followed by sev- eral decades of relative ...

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), Sum- mary of the sub-regional conference. Women’s rights are human rights. Women in ...