Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

in C. Fluehr-Lobban and K. Rhodes (eds.), Race and identity in the Nile valley. Ancient and modern per- spectives, Africa World ...

ing this process. Women effected through marriage or inheritance the commercial and cultural fusion of the Balkans and Eastern M ...

often resulted in the increased importance of using ethnicity or religion to disaggregate Ottoman soci- ety. Calls from various ...

2000, Mojab 2001. Finally, the diversity of Kurdish culture calls into question any attempt to general- ize the situation of “Ku ...

cultural and religious elements of customs often overlap. They know religion as part of their every- day lives in their countrie ...

adays, for many non-Muslims, the headscarf sym- bolizes the oppressive patriarchy that they believe Islam to be. When women are ...

Overview In Islamic law, rape is placed under the category of ™add(pl. ™udùd) crimes, which are offenses with specific punishmen ...

su≠ud states that a woman who defends herself in this way has committed an act of jihad. Jihad in this case is a matter of self- ...

why gang rape is prevalent today is the economic conditions of most Muslim countries. Problems of unemployment have made it diff ...

rape to stem from young male adults, unmarried and unsocialized (Heyd 1973). But young girls too were raped and/or abducted, and ...

to avoid the conclusion that even if a person had to pay the slander penalty, publicly accusing a rapist was an avenue to recove ...

went beyond collective dishonoring. It was meant to destroy or punish the fertile Muslim female body and to destroy future gener ...

has been a rise in the incidence of rape as men are more confident of escaping detection, while fear of imprisonment for zinà di ...

Central Asia Women’s religious associations and gatherings in Central Asia are closely connected with the histor- ical, politica ...

for female students were established within impor- tant Islamic institutions. Women started to attend the mosques – which until ...

It has been customary in Iran and Afghanistan for Muslims to gather together in gender-specific groups for religious instruction ...

associations – often linked to mosques, schools, and charity foundations – are a few of the many spaces where some women living ...

These organizations occupy an important and potentially powerful position in Indonesia (Marcoes 2002, 188). The historical backg ...

mission, or otherwise absorbed in the tablìgh movement, the women also learn how to be the only breadwinner and the head of the ...

Islamic schools. It also promotes women’s partici- pation in the public sphere in religious, educa- tional, and health activitie ...