Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural…
This article explores the ethics of the current "War on Terrorism, asking whether anthropology, the discipline devoted to…
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Revisited: Muslim Women’s agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle…
This article locates imaginative aspects of human subjectivity as a feminist issue by reviewing the concept of agency in the…
STEM Education and the Muslim Gender Divide
It may come as a surprise that this opening statement was made by First Lady Michelle Obama (September 26, 2011) on the status…
Muslim Women in Agricultural Education and the Labor Force
Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education (InnovATE) is a USAID-funded project supporting the capacity development of…
Islamic Representation in Television Advertising and Its Impact on Modern…
Advertising is an expression of cultural values, and by applying religious elements, it does effect consumer’s purchasing…
Female religious agents in Morocco: Old practices and new perspectives
In order to discuss female Moroccan sainthood in Chapter Four, I first will explore some contexts. In this chapter, I will…
A CONTEXTUAL METHOD OF INTERPRETING THE QUR’AN: A SEARCH FOR THE…
The Qur’an, the Holy Book, the guidance for Muslims’ lives, was revealed in Arabic. It is believed that Arabic was chosen as the…
The socio-political implications of translating the Quran
This paper investigates the socio-political implications of Quranic translations in the formation of a new public discourse in…
NTERSECTIONS: MODERNITY, GENDER, AND QURʾANIC EXEGESIS
Modernity imparted a new theoretical significance to the issue of gender reform in the Muslim world. This dissertation examines…
Gendering Jihad Ottoman Muslim Women and War during the Early Twentieth…
In November 1914 the fatwas issued by the Shaykh ül Islam Hayri Efendi, in which Muslims were called upon to take up arms against…
The Impact of Islam as a Religion and Muslim Women on Gender Equality: A…
The purpose of this study was to examine and explore the meanings, structures and essence of the lived experience of Muslim…
Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent…
The research strategy of the present paper is within a relatively new tradition in labor market research, initiated by the…
ISLAMIC WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN THE ARAB WORLD
Islamic women’s activism may appear a contradiction in terms to many Western audiences accustomed to presentations of Islam as…
Troublesome threesome: feminism, anthropology and Muslim women’s…
This article critically addresses recent anthropological and feminist efforts to theorize and analyse Muslim women's…
GENDER AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN ISLAM
slam’s rich tradition of scriptural guidance on equality between the sexes and examples of such equality have commonly been in…
Islamo-Arabic Culture and Women’s Law: An Introduction to the Sociology of…
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The present paper addresses the mutual relationship between society and law in shaping women’s law in Islam from the…
How did Islam contribute to change the legal status of women: The case of…
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This article studies the transformations which
took place in the legal status of slave women
(jawr), as a…