Inscribing South Asian Muslim women : an annotated bibliography & research guide /
In this volume comprehensive coverage of South Asian Muslim women's lives and their experiences, historically and contemporaneously, fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding variegated patterns of Muslim communities.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ;
91 Bd. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Selected sources for the study of South Asian Muslim women
- Muslim women in the history of South Asia
- Islamic traditions, Muslim women and the reform movement
- Pardah : Muslim women in/out of seclusion
- Religious practices
- In search of their identity : Muslim women setting new goals
- Women, nationalism and religion
- Muslim women's movements in South Asia
- The life cycle of South Asian Muslim women
- Women's rights to inherit property
- Education of South Asian Muslim women
- South Asian Muslim women's health
- Perspectives on South Asian women's development
- The arts and design
- Challenges, threats, and the responses of woman
- Feminism, new scholarship and new tools for development.
