Windows of faith : Muslim women scholar-activists in North America /
"This collection of essays brings together voices from the most recent development in Muslim women's studies, namely, the burgeoning network of Muslim women working on issues of women's human rights through engaged revisionist scholarship in such areas as theology, law and jurispruden...
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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Syracuse, NY :
Syracuse University Press,
2000.
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| Col·lecció: | Women and gender in North American religions.
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Taula de continguts:
- Introduction: "May Muslim women speak for themselves, please?" / Gisela Webb
- Alternative Qurʼanic interpretation and the status of Muslim women / Amina Wadud
- Muslim women's Islamic higher learning as a human right: theory and practice / Nimat Hafez Barazangi
- An introduction to Muslim women's rights / Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
- Women's self-identity in the Qurʼan and Islamic law / Maysam J. Al-Faruqi
- Her honor: an Islamic critique of the rape laws of Pakistan from a woman-sensitive perspective / Asifa Quraishi
- The scholar and the Fatwa: legal issues facing African American and immigrant Muslim communities in the United States / Aminah Beverly McCloud
- Braiding the stories: women's eloquence in the early Islamic era / Mohja Kahf
- Reading the signs: unfolding truth and the transformation of authority / Rabia Terri Harris
- Striving for Muslim women's human rights- before and beyond Beijing: an African American perspective / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
- Is family planning permitted by Islam: the issue of a woman's right to contraception / Riffat Hassan
- Appendixes: A. Human rights in the Qurʼanic perspective / Riffat Hassan ; B. A partial list of organizations for Muslim women's rights, advocacy, and higher Islamic education in the United States.
- / Kareema Altomare.