Women in Islamic Societies
eBook - ePub

Women in Islamic Societies

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Women in Islamic Societies

About this book

First published in 1983, this edited collection is based on contributions at a Scandinavian symposium on the place of women in Islamic society. It offers perspectives which illuminate our understanding of social relationships and structures pertaining to a vast number of the world's population dispersed throughout Asia and Africa. Sociological and anthropological investigations of social organization and the behavioural patterns provided in these papers demonstrate that the status of women, their rights, duties and control over property, their body, the degree of seclusion and veiling, vary considerably. Overall, this collection of papers show that the relationship between Islam and the everyday lives of Muslim women is a complex picture, one that is confronted with a considerable range of interpretations of laws and traditions.

This book will be of particular interest to those studying women and Islam, anthropology, religion and sociology.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138200708
eBook ISBN
9781315513911
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Attitude of Islamic Fundamentalism towards the Question of Women in Islam
  11. 2 Women after Death: Aspects of a Study on Iranian Nomadic Cemeteries
  12. 3 Mother, Sister, Daughter, Wife: the Pillars of the Traditional Albanian Patriarchal Society
  13. 4 Muslim Women in the Periphery: the West African Sahel
  14. 5 Conflicts of Solidarity in Pakhtun Women’s Lives
  15. 6 Women in Malaysia: Economic Autonomy, Ritual Segregation and some future Possibilities
  16. 7 The Matrifocal Warp of Bonerate Culture
  17. 8 Islam and Adat: Some Recent Changes in the Social Position of Women among Sasak in Lombok
  18. 9 Oppressive and Liberating Elements in the Situation of Palestinian Women
  19. 10 Women’s Roles in Contemporary Algeria: Tradition and Modernism
  20. 11 The Influence of Socialization and Formal Education on the Position of Turkish Women
  21. 12 Women left Behind: a Case Study of some Effects on Turkish Emigration
  22. 13 Women Mystics in Islam
  23. 14 Women in the Prophet’s Family as they Feature in Popular Bazaar Literature