Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

The son of Shàh Maghsoud, Saleheddin Ali Nader Angha, heads a separate organization known as the MTO (Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi) o ...

central figure for various Sufi orders in Western Europe and the United States who were attracted to his Sufi music and dance pe ...

The other important Western Sufi order is the Sudanese Burhàniyya, a branch of the Shadhiliyya founded by Shaykh ≠Uthmàn (d. 198 ...

Overview The term ummadesignates one of the most fundamental concepts in Islam. Often translated as the “Muslim community” of me ...

that in the Meccan period of Mu™ammad’s prophet- hood, a majority of the converts to Islam were women. In fact, the first person ...

cation for the authority invested in the office of the imam or caliph, and as such, the ummaserved as the ultimate source of pol ...

loyalties to the sovereign, secular nation-state, and the religious umma. These competing loyalties eventually led to a larger s ...

Overview the nineteenth and twentieth centuries The Woman Question early on became a key component of state actors’ attempts to ...

1870s onwards, most of the empire was devastated by continuous warfare on the frontiers, with two key results for our purposes h ...

nity and liberation struggles, achieving fame and a wide readership in the Muslim world at large, as they forwarded arguments de ...

had lost under secularist regimes. They argued that unveiled women in the workplace were vulnerable to sexual harrassment, and t ...

The Caucasus and Turkey turkey The development of women’s studies in Turkey in academic units at universities in the 1990s owes ...

to include issues such as queer theory, race, and ethnicity. There seems to be a discrepancy in com- munication and activities b ...

——, Kadın araçtırmalarında neden. Amaç ve kapsam, in N. Arat (ed.), Türkiye’de kadın olgusu. Kadın gerçe©ine yeni yaklaçımlar, I ...

2015”; and the “National Plan for Achieving Gender Equality in the Kyrgyz Republic, 2002–2006.” In March 2003 a law outlining go ...

a women’s college, while accepting students, has not assented to any of the proposed specializations and has instead focused on ...

Afghanistan Women’s organizations in Afghanistan have been profoundly affected by power struggles surround- ing government-spons ...

Text of speeches in the nation-wide conference of the women of Afghanistan, held in Kabul from Nov. 28–30, 1980, Kabul 1980. RAW ...

feminists, such as Mehrangiz Kar, are active in the women’s periodical press, as legal advocates, and in promoting feminist educ ...

Some of the prominent nationwide voluntary asso- ciations established by these groups are Ayrımcılı©a Karçı Kadın Derne©i (Women ...