Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

daily dilemmas related to gender issues are discussed, followed by closing prayers (Andezian 2001). The second association is mo ...

tions, particularly of Sufi orders, though few are known by name. Turkmen tribes first came to Anatolia at the end of the eleven ...

A. Y. Ocak, Alevi ve Bektaçi inançlarının ÷slam öncesi temelleri, Istanbul, 2000. Ayçe Saktanber The United States Methodical re ...

Ohio. She has taught and served as a director of the center’s weekend school, organized youth summer programs, edited the center ...

responding to the needs of Muslims in Europe; and (3) autonomous associations organized by women and bringing together Muslim wo ...

and seclusion, those married to active Tabligh members are often encouraged to engage in da≠wa activities as long as they do not ...

associations in Western Europe should also be men- tioned: some accept gender cooperation, like the Union de la jeunesse musulma ...

milieus – will most probably remain a long-lived cause for organized efforts. Although it is obvious that Muslim women are still ...

Egypt Coptic Christians are Egypt’s largest religious minority. Today, the exact number of Copts is unknown, with estimates rang ...

are veiled and most unveiled women are Copts, it is easy to single out Coptic women in the public arena. While Coptic men dress ...

and what is considered the right approach to Islam have varied from one wave of immigrants to another. South Asians Muslims in a ...

complementary rather than identical. The eco- nomic burdens facing working- and middle-class Muslim families, both native and im ...

Y. Y. Haddad and J. L. Esposito (eds.), Muslims on the Americanization path?, New York 2000. Y. Y. Haddad and A. T. Lummis, Isla ...

Arab States (excepting North Africa and the Gulf) If secularism is regarded as a political ideology the aim of which is to remov ...

ideological point of view there is a vast difference between secular and religious ideologies. Yet the gendered policies are not ...

and intersectionality, that is, the recognition that Muslim women have suffered historical disad- vantage based on both their ge ...

an unbridgeable chasm opened up among women themselves. Girls were withdrawn from schools and kept at home. Women teachers who d ...

and a religious and culturally informed private sphere. Far from emptying politics from the realms of religion or culture, and v ...

guardianship, and inheritance – and have thus largely ignored the social, economic, and political entitle- ments of women cuttin ...

significant popular and financial support for the Kemalist forces. After the War of Independence, Kemalists attempted to incorpo ...