Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Afghanistan Afghan women remain at the crossroads of dif- ferent kinds of stereotyping. The sex/gender system practiced exemplif ...

tions. During the Taliban regime Afghan women were stereotyped as alienated and subjugated with no rights. Although primarily tr ...

media, Canadian news sources immediately spec- ulated that the 1995 bombing of a United States government building in Oklahoma C ...

status, age, place of birth, and personal narratives as refugees and immigrants intersect with experi- ences of, and strategies ...

by various arguments: the family will spend on her marriage; after marriage she will receive hospitality from her brothers whene ...

riage among Muslims of Bihar, in I. Ahmad (ed.), Divorce and remarriage among Muslims in India, New Delhi 2003, 263–90. M.-A. Hé ...

has released six feature films showing Palestinians, Moroccans, and other Arab women not as exotic, bumbling and subservient mai ...

Bibliography M. Alloula, The colonial harem, Minneapolis, Minn. 1986. W. Buonaventura, Serpent of the Nile. Women and dance in t ...

how to express religious affiliation and the poten- tial emancipatory function of this religious sign (this taken from the liter ...

The Balkans The presence of Sufi orders in the Balkans is closely linked to Ottoman rule over this ethnically mixed peninsula be ...

collection of spiritual songs entitled Gül Deste (Bouquet of roses). This level of gender intermixing and equality is certainly ...

Women in Cairo and the Delta are much more visible, vocal, and assertive than women in Upper Egypt, where it is sometimes still ...

V. J. Hoffman, Sufism, mystics, and saints in Modern Egypt, Columbia, S.C. 1995. C. Mayeur-Jaouen, Al-Sayyid al-Badawi. Un grand ...

accompaniment, followed by individual women divulging their personal problems to the muqad- damabefore the group. A lìlamay also ...

al-£ajja Khadìja bint A™mad (Qari±at al-Maghrib), al- Sayf al-Yamànì, Cairo n.d. W. Jansen, Women without men. Gender and margin ...

seems to decrease over time. Besides the early asce- tics, other female Sufis for whom we have informa- tion tended to come from ...

pronouncing the sacred formulas aloud, from stand- ing, or from performing vigorous bodily move- ments due to taboos on males he ...

for women and have even performed the ceremony publicly in Turkey. In Algeria, the government- sponsored council of zàwiyas is c ...

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(1993) of Istanbul who first came to the United States in 1980. Branches of this †arìqadeveloped in New York under the leadershi ...