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The Muslim community that is portrayed to the West is a misogynist's playground; within the Muslim community, feminism is often regarded with sneering hostility.
Yet between those two views there is a group of Muslim women many do not believe exists: a diverse bunch who fight sexism from within, as committed to the fight as they are to their faith. Hemmed in by Islamophobia and sexism, they fight against sexism with their minds, words and bodies. Often, their biggest weapon is their religion.Here, Carland talks with Muslim women about how they are making a stand for their sex, while holding fast to their faith. At a time when the media trumpets scandalous revelations about life for women from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, Muslim women are always spoken about and over, never with. In Fighting Hislam, that ends.
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INDEX
Abduh, Muhammad 31
Adrienne (pseud.)
biography 45
on domestic violence 93
motivation for fighting sexism 76
refusal to be trapped by double bind 118
on support from her partner 91
Afghanistan, invasion of 14–15
Africa, nego-feminism 92
African-American converts to Islam 98
aid projects 28
Aisha (wife of Prophet Muhammad) 17
Al-Nisa’iyyat (Nasif) 19
Albrecht, Lisa 137
Alexander, Jacqui 137
Ali, Kecia 131
AltMuslimah 48–9, 79, 83
Aly, Waleed 93–4
Amani Services 59, 84
American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) 50
An-Na’im, Abdullahi 133
Arab Feminist Union 19
Arabiat, Abdul Latif 28
Astarabadi, Bibi Kahanum 20
Ataturk, Kemal 31, 32
Australia, Muslim population 38–9
Azizah magazine 58, 80–1, 86–8, 119
Bad Ass Muslimahs 57
Badran, Margot
on dichotomy between Islam and modernity 30
on Egyptian feminism 31
on Islamic feminism 33–4, 39
on middle space between feminism and Islamism 127
on Muslim views of fighting sexism 40
on Muslim women as feminists 126–7
on patrimonial home of feminism 19
on secular feminism in the Middle East 35
on secular feminism versus religious feminism 130
Baktiar, Laleh
biography 54–5
criticism of her scholarship 95, 99
dismissive suspicion from other Muslims 98
on domestic violence 120
translation of Qur’an from woman’s perspective 54–5, 73
Barazangi, Nimat 77, 135
Barlas, Asma
biography 48
on community attitudes toward fighting sexism 103
on importance of theology 21
on non-Muslim concerns about sexism 104
on projection of misogyny onto scripture 124
on working within an Islamic framework 134
‘Believing Women’ (Barlas) 48
benevolent sexism 24–5, 103
Beyond the Veil blog 50–1, 53
Blair, Cherie 15
Bunting, Annie 22–4
Bush, Laura 14–15
Canada, Muslim population 38
censorship 40, 109
censure of women, for challenging status quo 85–6
Chesler, Phyllis 14
colonialism, association with feminism 27, 28, 29–32
criticism of Muslim women’s fight
against sexism
by Muslim men 89–90
‘Muslim women behaving badly’ 94–7
questioning of religious legitimacy of their work 95–6
for ‘shaming the community’ 93–4
suspicion of converts to Islam 98
Cromer, 1st Earl (Evelyn Baring) 14, 30
de facto feminism 34
discriminati...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dangerous Waters
- One Beyond the Harem
- Two Witnesses to their Faith
- Three Journey to the Fight
- Four Encouragement, Hostility, Apathy
- Five The Double Bind
- Six The Third Way: Faith and Feminism
- Changing the Narrative
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Notes and Sources
- Bibliography
- Index